{"id":1656,"date":"2018-02-28T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/?page_id=1656"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:40:56","slug":"composting-options-for-city-dwellers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/composting-resources\/composting-options-for-city-dwellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Composting Options for City Dwellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Composting Options for City Dwellers<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commercial Composting<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Athens Clarke County}<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athensclarkecounty.com\/4457\/Commercial-Composting\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.athensclarkecounty.com\/4457\/Commercial-Composting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Costs<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Start-up costs: ~800K<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Equipment costs: ~750K<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is accepted for compost:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bio solids (from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACC Public Utilities Wastewater Treatment Facilities)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leaf\/limb debris and food scraps (from Let Us Compost, $15\/month service)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goals:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Produce compost for sale ($12\/yd^3 or $2\/5 gallon if you bring your own bucket, sold 9-3 Monday-Sunday)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reduce carbon footprint <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helps to retain moisture in the soil <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Costs and Benefits of Commercial Composting:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ac.els-cdn.com\/S0301479798902146\/1-s2.0-S0301479798902146-main.pdf?_tid=2723a4a6-888b-4de2-87c8-37f294fac0b2&amp;acdnat=1519937416_70fe71f94d246b90309f6cf4d79b5929\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/ac.els-cdn.com\/S0301479798902146\/1-s2.0-S0301479798902146-main.pdf?_tid=2723a4a6-888b-4de2-87c8-37f294fac0b2&amp;acdnat=1519937416_70fe71f94d246b90309f6cf4d79b5929<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Takes $53\/ton to process compost, with only $1\/ton offset in revenue from selling compost<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most facilities receive no revenue for the compost they produce, most of the product being donated to farmers, landscapers, nurseries and landfills<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Odour and residual plastics are the largest issue when it comes to composting at so large a scale<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to sort out plastics in the input stage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Controlling odour, or creating larger facilities that can be further away, mimicking the scale of garbage disposal<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Composting, upfront, is costlier than regular land disposal of waste on average<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In some states this is not the case, so a viable solution there but not for GA<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Offset costs of waste management:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No need to deal with landfills going forward, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Less volume of garbage being taken to landfills, as much of it goes to composting facilities instead<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vermiculture<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Services<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tree Hugger<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/green-food\/vermicomposting-and-vermiculture-worms-bins-and-how-to-get-started.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/green-food\/vermicomposting-and-vermiculture-worms-bins-and-how-to-get-started.html<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Uncle Jim\u2019s Worm Farm<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unclejimswormfarm.com\/small-scale-composting-worms-vermiculture-city\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/unclejimswormfarm.com\/small-scale-composting-worms-vermiculture-city\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Worm Poop<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wormpoop.com\/composting\/composting.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.wormpoop.com\/composting\/composting.htm<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pros-<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cheap- 1000 worms for $25<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Efficient- 1,000 composting worms can create between 8 and 16 ounces of compost per day<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cons-<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gross, too many worms needed to yield a good amount of compost<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limited in the things you can compost- no meat, poultry, or fish products, certain vegetables (onion and garlic)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pick Up<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let Us Compost <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.letuscompost.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.letuscompost.com\/<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Athens Based, picks up in Athens and Atlanta<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Costs for residential composting from LET US COMPOST<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$15\/month<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Included<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A kitchen bin for scraps<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling cart to take it to road and hold full bags<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New bags weekly<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weekly Pickup of scraps<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commercial composting with Let Us Compost<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$35\/week<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Collect scraps 5x a day<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accepted: \u201cMeat, bones, coffee, vegetables, fruit, leftovers, dairy and BPI certified wares\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All scraps collected taken to Classic City Composting<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conclusions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Large-scale composting operations, comparable to landfill garbage disposal, are far too costly to implement<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exceptions are in the North-east where regular land disposal is increasingly expensive<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Important to consider legislative changes on the production side, forcing corporations to create products that are more easily recyclable<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Put tax burden of recycling on corps, as there is no existing infrastructure to mindfully dispose of certain materials (see plastics, etc)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or force corps to put in place easier access to plastic recycling<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe ask Roosevelt about creating state-wide\/national reform<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Large scale vermiculture is a serious system to be considered, as it efficiently produces compost (time wise)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A very in depth process, requiring constant attention<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incineration\/Gasification might be a more lucrative\/useful waste management alternative<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composting Options for City Dwellers Commercial Composting Athens Clarke County} https:\/\/www.athensclarkecounty.com\/4457\/Commercial-Composting Costs Start-up costs: ~800K Equipment costs: ~750K What is accepted for compost: Bio solids (from ACC Public Utilities Wastewater Treatment Facilities) Leaf\/limb debris and food scraps (from Let Us Compost, $15\/month service) Goals: Produce compost for sale ($12\/yd^3 or $2\/5 gallon if you bring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/biol2103h\/composting-resources\/composting-options-for-city-dwellers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Composting Options for City 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