[USCC] SWANA Managing Composting Programs Course

[Matthew Cotton]

SWANA will be offering its Managing Composting Programs Course at 
Wastecon Sunday September 17 - 19th, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 
Managing Composting Programs course is a good all-purpose introduction 
to composting and is the prep course for the SWANA/USCC Certification 
course. This is NOT an operator training course, but would be of value 
to new or experienced compost operators who have never taken a 
classroom style composting course. It is an excellent refresher course 
for those interested in taking the SWANA/USCC Certification exam 
(offered in Charlotte as well as at the USCC Annual Conference in 
Orlando, January 2007). The three day class is predominantly 
classroom/Powerpoint instruction and a half day tour. In Charlotte, the 
tour will include Compost Central, the Mecklenberg County Composting 
Facility.  As one of the largest composting facilities on the East 
Coast, the Mecklenburg County facility processes about 80,000 tons of 
yard trimmings per year at its 28 acre site, including all yard waste 
collected by the City of Charlotte. Compost Central, which sits at the 
end of the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport runway, uses a 
variety of equipment to process the organic materials - tub grinders, 
windrow turner, star screens, trommel screens, and wheel loaders. This 
tour will walk you through the entire composting operation - from 
dumping and grinding to aerating windrows and screening to end product 
blending and mulch colorization.

In addition to the three-day course, all participants also receive:

	• 	Continental Breakfast and Lunch on Sunday–Tuesday.
	• 	Access to the Solid Waste Trade Show
	• 	One ticket to the Monday Night Reception
	• 	Access to all Technical Sessions on Wednesday and Thursday
	• 	Access to the Thursday Closing Reception

For more info or to register you can check out:

http://swanastore.stores.yahoo.net/3trcopa.html

Matthew Cotton
Integrated Waste Management Consulting, LLC
19375 Lake City Road
Nevada City, CA  95959
(530) 265-4560
Fax (530) 265-4547
mattcotton at mindspring.com