[USCC] Taking Composting to the Next Level: Using Forced Aeration for Food Wastes, Manures, and Other Organics

[Cary Oshins]

The Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a new
class that will be offered on March 6, 2008 at the Montgomery County
Extension Office in Collegeville, PA.  This new class will be focusing on
Aerated Static Piles for composting.  To download the registration form,
follow this link: HYPERLINK
"http://www.proprecycles.org/PDFs/certification/Aerated%20Static%20Piles%202
008.pdf"http://www.proprecycles.org/PDFs/certification/Aerated%20Static%20Pi
les%202008.pdf

 

Course Description - This course has been developed for experienced
composters (municipal, farm, non-profit or for-profit) who would like to
expand beyond the basics of leaf and yard waste composting into food
residuals, manures, and other challenging materials.  Composting with forced
aeration has some big advantages over traditional turned piles.  You use
fans and pipes instead of expensive windrow turners, allowing for increased
volume on the same size pad with better odor control, lowering your per unit
production cost. Until recently there were no local examples to look at, but
that changed when Ned Foley converted his 2 Particular Acres composting to
forced air using a system designed by Peter Moon of O2Compost. 

This class will explain the differences between the systems, how you figure
fan size and piping, what kind of environmental protection and permitting
you need and features an in depth visit to Ned’s farm in lower Montgomery
County (bring your boots!).  Upon completion of this course, participants
will receive a Penn State certificate verifying the .7 CEUs earned toward
Recycling Professional Certification.  

Featured Instructor - Peter Moon, PE, President of O2Compost, Snohomish,
Washington.  Peter has 25 years of consulting (i.e., problem solving)
experience, during which he has learned a great deal about composting and
everything he knows he has learned by doing it. Having studied, tested and
resolved nearly every mistake imaginable, he understands what works and more
importantly what does not work. His hands-on experience has led to a career
in training others the How-To’s of on-farm composting.  Peter works with
nearly every variety of organic by-product, however his principal areas of
interest are composting horse manure, grape pumace, golf course green
wastes, and exotic wastes such as zoo manure, mink wastes and farm
mortalities.

Peter founded Price-Moon Enterprises in 1996 as an environmental consulting
firm specializing in setting up compost facilities to process agricultural
and municipal organic waste. O2Compost is the Training Program Division of
Price-Moon Enterprises and have taken literally thousands of hours to
develop, test, refine, and promote. The objective has always been to enable
all composters, no matter what the size of their facilities, to compost
their by-products with aeration and to keep this process simple, systematic
and affordable.  Website: HYPERLINK
"file:///\\\\www.o2compost.com"www.o2compost.com. 

Please note that this is an advanced course and is not intended for those
who are mainly interested in home scale composting.

If you have question regarding this course, please contact the Course
Coordinator, Cary Oshins at HYPERLINK
"mailto:caryoshins at hotmail.com"caryoshins at hotmail.com, 484-547-1521.

For questions about the PROP Certification Program, contact Amy M. Carlotto
Zuckett, M.Ed, Education Director 
PROP, PO Box 25, Stadium Road, Bellwood, PA 16617, Phone: (814) 742-7777,
HYPERLINK "mailto:azuckett at proprecycles.org"azuckett at proprecycles.org, 
HYPERLINK "file:///\\\\www.proprecycles.org"www.proprecycles.org 

 


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