Vital Earth Company Pty Ltd

"Vermiculture at the commercial level is the future for organic waste"

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Our immensely popular electric drive Easy Rota worm separator that collects the worms inside the drum safely out of the light rain and wind. Plus does all this with a 98% guaranteed efficiency! We have shipped our Easy Rota separators to many countries in the last eight years.

Click here for more details

                     Our latest system in conjunction with our sister company Vermicrobe Click here for more

Aerial view of one of our recent Vermicrobe Australia installations

          An entirely new product again from the designer of the Easy Rota Mr Darryl Jones, is our superb new Vermitent system

Yet another new product for 2007 

A massive 118 megabyte CD ROM on commercial Vermiculture. This fact filled product is the culmination of fourteen years of full time commercial vermiculture and the result of over 200 three day vermiculture seminars presented in many countries by Vital Earth Company Managing Director Darryl Jones. Enough information here to start your own successful commercial vermiculture business from your own backyard anywhere in the world! It features business and marketing plans in PDF files and in Microsoft Word, Excel spreadsheets, two PowerPoint slide presentations with audio and a complete manual with photos and drawings of everything we have done regarding successful commercial vermiculture in that time. Click here for our free e-book, which is a sample from this offer so as you can  evaluate the quality of the full CD ROM.

Click here to go to our special site dedicated to this new CD ROM venture

Announcement:

 

New machine from August 2007 ....the Super Sieve automated cast classifier developed by our sister company Vermicrobe International. Click here

Download a brochure here

The best soil and vermicast meters in the industry. Click here

Many new things happenings now so check her for more info on our microbe brewers September 2005: Click here

Check here for the dog and cat kennel Vital Earth System. Click here

Our Company is dedicated to a simple principle and that is to use natural, non chemical, and sustainable solutions to everyday needs. An important  new phase of Vermiculture has thus begun.

Our original Vermi-Converters make the news around Australia. Click here for details.

Our all new Vital Vermi-Converter Mk2 is about to be launched and will revolutionise the future of green waste.

Photos of the factory and Vermi-converters around Australia Click here

Export of our Easy Rota worm separators and Vermi-Converters. Click here for details

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The original solar powered Vermi-Converter designed by Darryl Jones Director of Vital Earth Company Pty Ltd and  released in 1999

Now available from TAT G Click here

New for 2007

The VCS2000 Solar powered Vermi-Converter.

Now a first ever preview impression of the new solar powered automatic Vermi-Converter Mk2

We are taking expressions of interest  now and trials have started. Email now for prices and delivery

Download a brochure here

Specifications:

Capacity Model VCS2000 2.2 cubic metres primary working area, 300 kilos of stored finished castings.

Over al dimensions: Length. 2.4m Height to top of peak. 1.9 Depth. 1.3m. Two rotation moulded lids for waste disposal

Weekly throughput of fine organic waste converted 300 kilograms

Capacity Model VCS4000 3.5 cubic metres primary working area, 420 kilos of stored finished castings.

Over all dimensions: Length. 3.4m Height to top of peak 1.9m. Depth. 1.3m Three rotation moulded lids for waste disposal

Weekly throughput of fine organic waste converted 420 kilograms. 200 litres of usable liquid per week.

Liquid tank capacity 200 litres

Fully solar powered at a safe working voltage of 12 volts DC

NOTE. Finished casting:  Weight per cubic metre ranges generally from 600 kgs up to 900 kgs depending on moisture content

*A commercial waste bin system that looks like a waste bin and works like a worm bin!

* Fresh lawn clippings reduced in days to usable liquids and solids!

* Restaurant food scraps reduced and converted on the spot!

*Turn converted organic waste to useful organic fertilisers

* Save huge dollars on waste cartage and tip fees.

*Lead by example

Now organic waste can be reduced and converted to a useful by-product at the place the waste is created.

Ideal for schools, restaurants, mining companies, caravan parks, bowling clubs, resorts, factories, retirement villages.

No danger to user

Fully automatic

Leachate proof

Weather proof

Vermin proof

Smell proof

Solar power

Thus meeting current government objectives or better.

Even zero organic waste landfill is now possible!

Taking organic waste and converting it automatically into  a useful natural fertiliser in one easy step.

 Dispose of green waste as before i.e. directly into a waste bin. But from there on the patented design of the Vital Vermi-Converter uses compost worms for the direct conversion of the green waste into a rich organic fertiliser for immediate use. Superb for lawn clippings, from residential, golf courses, bowling greens, caravan parks, showgrounds, airports etc.

The system utilises two principles Vermi-Reduction and Vermi-Conversion click either for explanations.

The key feature is that it is all done AUTOMATICALLY with the vermicast solid falling to waiting trays, as the worm body action expels it from the Vermi-Converter. Then via a unique surface tension effect the liquid quite literally runs backwards to the collector tray and is automatically pumped back into the Vermi-Converter at a controlled rate, until it too is ultimately converted to a ready to use liquid fertiliser.  Graph on potential for organic fertiliser.

The whole unit is self contained and powered freely by the sun's energy, a sealed battery stores the electrical energy converted from sunlight, to power the sequence timer and the recirculation pump. The sequence timer can be programmed for a variety of spraying duration's and intervals, so as to ensure it can be used in any location, with any type of green waste.

In New South Wales Australia an act of law passed in 1995 requires that there be a reduction of waste to landfill of 60% by January the first 2000.

Other new Vermiculture products such as the Swag have been developed for domestic use to compliment these laws. We can now mail a Swag to any part of the world.
 
In N.S.W. an all out effort by the state government includes a range of grants to individuals and corporations of up to $100,000.00 for innovative projects that help achieve the above guidelines, this a good indication of just how seriously the governments of Australia view the need to solve the waste problem by the due date.
 
South Australia has similar legislation, the government of Queensland has other strategies. The Western Australian government gives out awards and cash, for organic waste recycling projects. Victoria has some excellent grants and programs
 

More from the state of Victoria with several educational and incentive programs designed to minimise waste and recycle waste into useful products.

World wide, organisations like New Zealand's Zero Waste and in the USA Sound Resource Management lead with programs for Zero waste. A world full of opportunity now exists to make a business out of providing services and equipment for what is clearly a rapidly growing International market measured in billions of dollars. The Vital Earth Technologies has taken a leading position as an innovator in organic recycling.

A good local site [ near to us in the Hunter Valley ] is run by the Hunter Waste Planning and Management Board, other places in NSW have trialled vermiculture with a variety of EPA grants such as here Vermiculture.

More on EPA Vermiculture Grants.

Worm Farm trials

Hastings Council demonstration worm farm

Tallaganda Shire community vermiculture program

Lake Macquarie NSW City Council lawn clippings project

School projects in NSW

Small commercial system

Another local Waste Board on the central coast of NSW based in Gosford has this to say at their Central Coast Waste Board site

 

MILESTONES of the Vital Earth Company technologies

One.   We developed the first transportable modular worm pits in Australia in 1992, these today are the leading Vermiculture system used all over Australia and now in many other countries, they allow for one component to become a breeding system, a safe transportable system, and an end use system, for many Vermiculture applications including, liquid cast production. We also worked with a microbiologist to create a suitable bacteria pellet of Aerobic compost bacteria accelerator now considered a must have by commercial worm growers

Two.   In 1993 we introduced an intensive formalised Vermiculture training program, with overhead slides, manuals, exams, computer aids etc.based at our head office at Lemon Tree Passage N.S.W. the hub of our dealer network and created our successful but tightly limited Vital Earth Associate Grower network, with our unique guaranteed buyback scheme, this has become the strength behind the success of all our Associate Growers, who now operate in all states of Australia.

Three.   We perfected a unique and proprietary recirculation and enhancement technique for liquid cast in 1994, that today gives us and all our Associate Growers, the leading edge in quality, consistent, organic liquid fertilisers. This in fact was an industry first, not just for Australia but for the world and our company is proud of this very important contribution. The growth in the liquid sales area continues for our company, along with increased sales of top quality solid vermicast All Vermiculturists in Australia now benefit from independent trials completed by the C.S.I.R.O. in February 1998 in the Viticulture. [ grape growing industry ] where increased yields of 50% has been recorded   .[ Special conditions apply ]

[ Note: For those that would like to know more about these trials and how they where conducted contact the C.S.I.R.O. particularly the late Dr John Buckerfeild of the C.S.I.R.O. ]

For trials and results commissioned and conducted by the Vital Earth Company Pty Ltd contact the writer Mr. Darryl Jones. Managing Director of the Vital Earth Company Pty Ltd.

Four.   In 1996 we developed a computer program just for Vermiculture, we engaged a recognised marketing company Success Gym from Queensland to develop the Business plan, and commissioned a chartered accountant to develop the Microsoft Word and Excel interactive spreadsheets, this is the plan we use. This software can be purchased directly from the Vital Earth Technologies.

Five.   On March the first of 1998 we launched our company developed Easy Rota worm separators, after a full year of research and development, once again leading the way with an innovative new product that works safely, and efficiently, to separate the compost worm from the vermicast. Since March 1998, this product has enjoyed healthy sales, with  over one hundred units built and shipped Australia wide, and more than 100 have been exported overseas, into a variety of markets such as commercial worm growers, councils, dairies, waste contractors, liquid cast producers, piggeries, schools, grape growers, and hobby worm growers. This clearly indicates a healthy industry looking for innovations, beyond simple bath tubs, and windrows.

Six.    The original Vital Vermi-Converter developed by the Vital Earth Company director Darryl Jones and launched on the first of March, 1999. The Vital Vermi-Converter is a product purpose designed, and holding Australian  patents for application in the vast commercial organic waste elimination and organic waste conversion industry. This project will require an enormous quantity of compost worms, causing a welcome boost to the income of commercial worm growers. Plus it will now go on to solve local organic waste problems at the location the waste is produced, and meet tough new environmental laws in Australia and overseas, thus offering a very real solution and means of meeting the new environmental laws now in place in NSW and SA and reaching out around the world. We can really say even   without ownership of a crystal ball, that there will be no return to the bad old days of incinerators, ocean outfalls and smelly rat infested tips on fire, as a method of organic waste disposal. Organic waste reduction and conversion at the site where it originates from, will be the ONLY acceptable means of waste reduction and conversion. The original Vital Vermi-Converter leads the way and is now available from TAT G the current manufacturer.

Seven.  Our latest project in 2005 has been to create a CD ROM on commercial vermiculture. This new package reveals everything that is needed to be known from how to grow worms commercially to how to sell them, or task them successfully anywhere in the world. This CD ROM has 118 megabytes of information, including spreadsheets, business and marketing plans, PowerPoint slide presentations with audio and a complete commercial vermiculture manual illustrated with photos and drawings of our own operation  Go to this site and see for yourself. Click here

Eight.   The formation of a new company Vermicrobe Australia Pty Ltd  in 2003 as a joint venture with Earthly Worm Works. Entirely new systems have been introduced by this dynamic combination. Check the Vermitent system above Click here

Nine.   The development of the new Super Sieve to clarify solid vermicast 2005 Available from August 2005

Ten.  At last the second generation fully automatic solar powered (patent pending) Vermi-Converter late 2007

The Vital Vermi-Converter Mk1 and now the long awaited Mk2  will take Vermiculture into the new millennium in Australia and along with our other unique vermiculture innovations now world wide, via a significant, multi-million dollar industry catering to substantial organic waste elimination via Vermi-reduction and then via Vermi-conversion to value added natural organic fertilisers, currently gaining ground as consumers look for non-chemically grown produce. 

In N.S.W. the state government has introduced legislation that will require a 60% reduction of organic waste material going to landfill by the end of 1999, 

Now is the time to take that next step in an industry set to leap forward, and enjoy a lifestyle business, with solid growth, and a long term future well into the next millennium. Contact us soon if you would like to enter the fascinating industry of Vermiculture. 

Vital Earth Company Pty Ltd

P.O. Box 3 Lemon Tree Passage.   N.S.W. 2319 Australia.

Phone 61 [02] 49826877  Fax 61 [02] 49826866

Check also our exclusive Vital Earth developed super innoculant

V.E. Worm Booster

Designed to enhance thermophilic composting, plus destroy viable seeds and pathogens prior to vermicomposting.

Our world famous Easy Rota compost worm separators

Our entirely new Vermicast Super Sieve

Installations around Australia of our V.E. modular worm pits.

The most popular domestic worm product in the world the Worm Factory.  Click here

Professional Vermiculture seminars have been run by our company since 1993

A  report on Vermiculture by Mr Darryl Jones Managing Director of the Vital Earth Company

History of Vermiculture in Australia that our company has been involved in for many years Click here

A 186 page downloadable (PDF file) study on Green Waste can be found here among other good stuff Click here

How Darryl Jones (Managing Director of the Vital Earth Company) has made vermiculture a rewarding passion for the last 14 years.  Click here

Below is a rich resource list of web sites on vermiculture and related composting that will keep you happy for hours

[PDF]

Literature Review of Worms in Waste Management Volume 2

 


waste product - dry olive cake, for use as a soil amendment. ..... In trials with grapes, in situ vermiculture increased both the availability and plant ...
www.recycledorganics.com/publications/reports/vermlitreview/vermilitreview2.pdf

Bioresource Technology : Nutrient changes and biodynamics of ...

 

Nevertheless, in P. excavatus most of the vermiculture experiments were conducted ..... during the vemicomposting of a lignocellulosic olive waste, Biores. ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960852406002847 - Similar pages - Note this

 

Vermicomposting: Recycling Wastes into Valuable Organic Fertilizer

from organic waste into vermicompost faster than the burrowing earthworms. ... Multiplication trials of earthworms using different organic materials
www.icrisat.org/journal/agroecosystem/v2i1/v2i1vermi.pdf

 

Production of vermifertilizer from guar gum industrial wastes by ...

by using composting earthworm Perionyx sansibaricus (Perrier). Surendra Suthar ..... composting of a lignocellulosic waste from olive oil industry: A ...
www.springerlink.com/index/T1G5362L0V1M6331.pdf http://www.springerlink.com/index/T1G5362L0V1M6331.pdf

 

Summary of Sub-Award Projects


Vegetative propagation trials to address the two specific objectives of .... The objective of this project is to predict when the olive fruit is ...
www.buycalinit.com/files/Summary%20of%20Sub-Award%20Projects.pdf

 

 

Production and Use of Compost

for a series of on-farm trials comparing pile compost production with traditional ..... Combining vermiculture with traditional green. waste composting systems. ...
www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04122004-192529/unrestricted/etd.pdf

 

Genova: Making The Most Of The Pits :

Olive waste from Julis' olive oil press will be fed into Genova's reactor ... RE: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Sequestration Using Algae ...
www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/genova_making_t.php - 74k - Cached

 

 

 

On-Farm Composting Methods
RV Misra, RN Roy
2002
FAO, Rome

Braemar Community Composting Scheme
RT Pringle, Dr. IF Svoboda
37316
SAC

Backyardbiz CD Everything you need to know about commercial vermiculture

The Composting Process: Compost Maturity
The Composting Council of Canada

The Composting Process: Testing & Monitoring
The Composting Council of Canada

The Composting Process: Odour Management
The Composting Council of Canada

The Composting Process: Fundamental Principles
The Composting Council of Canada

The Composting Process: Feedstock Management
The Composting Council of Canada

The Composting Process: Leachate Management
The Composting Council of Canada

Successful Composting: The Benefits of Compost
The Composting Council of Canada

Successful Composting: Community Relations
The Composting Council of Canada

Successful Composting: Marketing Opportunities
The Composting Council of Canada

Review of Compost Standards in the Netherlands
D Hogg, J Barth, E Favoino, M Centemero, V Caimi, F Amlinger, W Devliegher, W Brinton, S Antler
37408
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

Review of Compost Standards in Portugal
D Hogg, J Barth, E Favoino, M Centemero, V Caimi, F Amlinger, W Devliegher, W Brinton, S Antler
37408
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

Review of Compost Standards in the UK
D Hogg, J Barth, E Favoino, M Centemero, V Caimi, F Amlinger, W Devliegher, W Brinton, S Antler
37408
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

Review of Compost Standards in the United States
D Hogg, J Barth, E Favoino, M Centemero, V Caimi, F Amlinger, W Devliegher, W Brinton, S Antler
37408
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

Review of Compost Standards in the Ireland
D Hogg, J Barth, E Favoino, M Centemero, V Caimi, F Amlinger, W Devliegher, W Brinton, S Antler
37408
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

Review of Compost Standards in Sweden
D Hogg, J Barth, E Favoino, M Centemero, V Caimi, F Amlinger, W Devliegher, W Brinton, S Antler
37408
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

Review of Compost Standards in Spain
D Hogg, J Barth, E Favoino, M Centemero, V Caimi, F Amlinger, W Devliegher, W Brinton, S Antler
37408
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

Comparison of Compost Standards within the EU, North America and Australasia
D Hogg, J Barth, E Favoino, M Centemero, V Caimi, F Amlinger, W Devliegher, W Brinton, S Antler
37408
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

How to control odour nuisance from windrow and in-vessel composting
N Defoer, H Van Langenhove
Ghent University

Waste Management Options and Climate Change - the case of biowaste
Keith A Brown
37347
AEA Technology

The Costs of Managing Biodegradable Waste
Hannes Partl, Martin Steiner
37347
TBU GmbH Austria

Source Seperation and composting of organic municipal solid waste
Mark Gould, Richard Garrison, Stephen Foster
33786
Resource Recycling

Living with your Neighbours: Perception is Reality
Ken Warner
 
Frontier Industrial Corp.

Compostable Packaging: A Potential or a Threat for Compost
Bruno De Wilde
37347
Organic Waste Systems (OWS) Gent Belgium

Composting Produce Waste and Wax Coated Cardboard: Pilot Study Results Using a Low Technology Approach
    CWC (Managing Partner of ReTAP)

Workshop Biological Treatment of Biodegradable Waste: Community rules for composting and biogasification of animal by-products
    European Commission

A Feasibility Study of the Introduction of Process and Quality Standards for Compost in the UK
TCA (The Composting Association)
The Composting Association, UK

Standards for Composts
TCA (The Composting Association)
36647
The Composting Association, UK

Large Scale Organic Materials Composting
Rhonda Sherman
  North Carolina State University

An Evaluation of Degradable Polymers. How Do They Meet the Requirements of Composting Operation?
K Shaw, M Day, D Matthews, S Balabanian, R D'Souza, S McCarthy, S Lecordier, D Carrisson
  Institute for Chemical Process & Environmental Technology National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario

Odour Production & Oxygen Consumption under Controlled Composting Conditions
Monty P. Bruce, Anthony K. Lau
  University of British Columbia

Ammonia & Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions from a Greenwaste Composting Operation
Wayne A. Stredwick
37135
South Coast Air Quality Management District - USA

Characterization of Ammonia, Total Amine, Organic Sulfur Compound, and Total Non-Methane Organic Compound (TGNMOC) Emissions from Composting Operations
Carey Willoughby
35065
South Coast Air Quality Management District - USA

PowerPoint Presentation on Composting
Scuola Agraria del Parco di , Italy

Evaluation of Co-Composter Results Versus On-Farm Composting Systems
T. Crone, A. E. Staehr, M. Moffe, D. Haith
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell Waste Management Institute

Technical Guidance on odour from Composting Operations V3 Draft for Consultation
  37165
Environment Agency UK

Co-Composter Description and Users Manual
37165
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell Waste Management Institute

compost MSDS
  36465
ProSciTech, Australia

On-Site Composting: Technology Options and Process Control Strategies: Edition 1
M. Jackson, N. Shepherd, A. Campbell
2000
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Success stories on composting & separate collection
  2000
European Commission, Directorate-General for the Environment

On-Site Composting: Technology Options and Process Control Strategies: Edition 2
M. Jackson, N. Shepherd, A. Campbell
2001
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Costs for Municipal Waste Management in the EU, Final Report to Directorate General Environment, European Commission
Dr. Dominic Hogg
37165
Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd.

Consultation Response to Technical Guidance on Composting Operations: A report produced for Environment Agency, UK AEAT/EWAA 1046 Issue 1
P. Wheeler, S. Mason
37377
AEA Technology

Risk Assessment: Use of Composting & Biogas Treatment to Dispose of Catering Waste Containing Meat: Final Report to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, UK
Dr. Paul Gale
37377
WRc-NSF Ltd.

Composting Yard Trimmings & Municipal Solid Waste
USEPA
34455
USEPA

Research Concerning Human Pathogens and Environmental Issues Related to Composting of Non-Green Feedstocks
TetraTech, Inc. ISG/E&A Environmental Consultants, Inc.
37104
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Organic Materials Management Strategies
USEPA
36342
USEPA

Best Practice Guideline to Managing On-site Vermiculture Technologies
A. Ferris, Dr. M. Jackson, A. Campbell
37257
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Food Organics Processing Options for New South Wales
Dr. F. Valzano, Dr. M. Jackson, A. Campbell
37073
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

RO Dictionary & Thesaurus: Standard terminology for the New South Wales recycled organics industry
M. Jackson
36861
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Working Document: Biological Treatment of Biodegradable Waste: 1st Draft (also includes Draft 2)
European Commission
36800
European Commission Directorate General Environment

The State of Composting 1999: Results of The Composting Associations survey of UK composting facilities and collectionn systems in 1999
R. Slater, J. Frederickson, E.J. Gilbert
37043
The Composting Association, UK

Part 637 Environmental Engineering National Engineering Handbook: Chapter 2 Composting
R. E. Graves, G.M. Hattemer
36557
United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Development of a Compost Recipe for Swine
E. R. Collins Jr., S.C. Parson
199-
Department of Biological Systems Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

On Farm Composting Methods
RV Misra, RN Roy FAO, Rome
2002
FAO, Rome

Midscale Composting Manual
Olds College Composting Technology Centre for Alberta Environment, Action on Waste
36495
Olds College Composting Technology Centre for Alberta Environment, Action on Waste

Leaf and Yard Waste Composting Manual
Olds College Composting Technology Centre for Alberta Environment, Action on Waste
36495
Olds College Composting Technology Centre for Alberta Environment, Action on Waste

RO Dictionary & Thesaurus: Standard terminology for the New South Wales recycled organics industry
M. Jackson
2000
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Composting Technologies & Systems: Possibilities for the advancement of Scottish Waste Treatment
H. Bruce
36800
Remade Scotland

Basic On-Farm Composting Manual: Final Report
P. Moon
35551
The Clean Washington Centre, Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development

Compost Quality Standards and Guidelines
W. F. Brinton
36861
Woods End Research Laboratory

Vermiculture in Organics Management - The Truth Revealed
A. Ferris, M. Jackson, A. Campbell
37316
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

AWTT Report: Report on Very Large Scale Vermiculture Research
Vermitech Pty Ltd.
36251
Vermitech Pty Ltd.

Will Composting Work for Us? A Decision Guide forManagers of Businesses, Institutions, Campuses, and Other Facilities
The Clean Washington Centre
35582
The Clean Washington Centre

Emision Reductions from Composting & Related Operations: Proposed Rule 1133, Technology Assessment, Discusion Document
Dr S Dabirian, T Pham, B Radlein, R Rivera
37316
South Coast Air Quality Management District - USA

Composting 7: Decision Maker's Guide to Solid Waste Management, Vol II
USEPA
199-
USEPA

Main EU Directives on Waste
Karine Pellaumail
36982
Friends of the Earth - UK

The Alan Titchmarch Guide to Home Composting
Alan Titchmarch
2001
The Composting Association, UK

Backyard Composting
C Cogger, D Sullivan
37165
Washinton State University: College of Agriculture & Home Economics

Biosolids Technology Fact Sheet: In-Vessel Composting of Biosolids
USEPA
36770
USEPA

MSW Composting Fact Sheet: No 1(of 7) Physical Processing
T Richard
1993
Cornell University: Department of Agriculture and Biological Engineering

Information Sheets in.
RESOURCE NSW: The NSW centre for organic resource recovery, management, research & development, demonstration and training
200-
RESOURCE NSW: The NSW centre for organic resource recovery, management, research & development, demonstration and training

Information Sheet No. 1-1: Introduction to the approvals and licensing process for composting facilities
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 1-2: Preliminary planning and identification of appropriate composting technologies
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 1-3: Site selection and impact analysis
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 1-4: Overview of the performance based development assessment process
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 1-5: Consultation with government authorities for all developments
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 1-6: Detailed site design and documenting an environmental management plan
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 1-7: Preparing the impact statements, gaining development consent and relevant environmental protection licences
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 1-8: Case study - sucessful landscape supplies business expands into composting
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheets in Guide to Developing a Process Control System for a Composting Facility
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 2-1: What is a process control system?
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 2-2: Examples of process control systems for composting facilities
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Other Packages obtainable from http://www.recycledorganics.com
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 1: Establishing a licensed composting facility;
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 2: Guide to developing a process control system for a composting facility;
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 3: Producing quality compost;
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 4: Guide to selecting, developing and marketing value-added recycled organics products;
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 5: Composting science for industry;
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 6: Buyers guide for recycled organics products
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 7: How to use recycled organics products;
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 8: OH&S workbook for compost and related facilities (not yet funded).
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales


  Information Sheets in "Producing Quality Compost" This package contains a collection of ten Information Sheets:
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 3-1 Striving for quality: basics of a quality management system
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 3-2: Quality assurance systems
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 3-3 On-site field testing and monitoring for quality
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 3-4: On-site laboratory testing for quality
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 3-5: Off-site testing for quality: recommended tests and how to select an independent laboratory
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 3-6: Quality of biosolids: risk minimisation during re-processing
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 3-8: Producing quality compost: introduction to Australian Standard AS 4454-1999 composts, soil conditioners and mulches
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales


  Information Sheets in "Composting Science for Industry
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-1: Composting science for industry
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-2: Composting systems
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-1: Temperature
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-4: Oxygen
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-5: Water
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-6: Porosity, structure, texture and particle size
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-7: Carbon to nitrogen ratio (C:N) and other nutrients
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-8: pH
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 5-9: The compost recipe, processing time and curing
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales


Other Packages obtainable from http://www.recycledorganics.com
Package 1: Establishing a licensed composting facility (available now);
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 2: Developing a process control system for a composting facility (Dec. 200 1);
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 3: Producing quality compost (available now);
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 4: Manufacturing recycled organics products for markets (June 2002);
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 5: Composting science for industry (available now);
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 6: Buyers guide for recycled organics products (available now);
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 7: How to use recycled organics products (available now);
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Package 8: OH&S workbook for compost and related facilities (not yet funded).
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales


Information Sheets in.
Information Sheet No. 7-1-1: Pasteurised soil conditioner
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-1-3: Pasteurised mulch
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-1-4: Composted soil conditioner
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-1-5: Composted fine mulch
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-1-6: Composter mulch
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-2-1: General potting mix
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-2-2: Specialist potting mix
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-3-1: Manufactured soil products - Low density soils
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-3-2: Manufactured soil products - Organic soils
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-3-3: Soil blend products
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-4-1: Playground surfacing
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-5-1: Shredded plant materials (non-pasturised)
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-6-1: Vermicast
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-6-2: Vermiculture liquids
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Information Sheet No. 7-7-1: Aqueous compost extract (compost tea)
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Composting Animal Mortalities on the Farm
H Brodie, L Carr
  Department of Biological Resources Engineering, University of Maryland

Code of Practice for Composting Facilities
2001
Alberta Environmental Protection

Composting Technologies Review
J Laurenson
American Bio Tech

Evaluation of Compost Facility Runoff for Beneficial Reuse - Phase 1&2: Tecnology Brief
Clean Washington Centre

Risk Assessment: Use of Composting to dispose of catering waste and animal by-products
WRc-NSF Ltd
37165
DEFRA


Report on Recycled Organics Products in Stormwater Treatment Applications for Resource NSW. New!
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Risk Assessment of Garden Maintenance Chemicals in Recycled Organics Products for Resource NSW. New!
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Evaluation of the Processing Capacity of On-site In-vessel Vermiculture Technology for Resource NSW.
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

On-site Composting: Technology Options and Process Control Strategies. Second edition with fully updated information.
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Best Practice Guideline to Managing On-site Vermiculture Technologies for Southern Sydney Waste Board.
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Composting Facilities for Central Coast Waste Board.
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Food Organics Processing Options for New South Wales for Central Coast Waste Board.
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Literature Review on the Composting of Composite Wood Products for Western Sydney Waste Board.
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales

Processing of Commerical and Industrial Organics in Vermiculture Systems for Southern Sydney Waste Board.
Recycled Organics Unit, University of New South Wales


Home Composting

Worms Eat My Garbage How to set up and maintain a worm composting system
M. Appelhof
1982
Flower Press 10332 Shaver Road, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49024

Backyard Composting, your complete guide to recycling yard clippings
J. W. Roulac
1997
Harmonious Technologies

Home Composting Made Easy
F. McDowell, T. Clark-McDowell
Cortesia Press 84540 McBerth Rd., Eugene, Oregon, USA

Composting At Home Made Easy
City of Bellevue Resource Conservation Office

Composting At Home Made
The Natural Lawn & Garden
Seattle Public Utilities

 

 
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