[USCC] North Carolina Compost Operator Training

[Craig Coker]

The North Carolina State Committee of the U.S. Composting Council announces
the return of its widely-hailed compost operator training course.
Commercial Composting and Compost Use will be taught from Monday through
Friday, September 8 - 12, 2008 at North Carolina State University in
Raleigh, NC.

 

This course will again be taught by several of the most experienced
professionals in composting in the Carolinas, including Frank Franciosi,
Rhonda Sherman and Craig Coker.  Franciosi is currently Manager of the
Nature's GREEN-RELEAF TM - Novozymes North America, Inc. Composting Facility
in Franklinton, NC and has over 15 years experience managing composting
facilities.  Sherman has 20 years of experience in solid waste management
and has been on faculty at NC State University for 13 years and provides
education and technical assistance on vermicomposting and composting
throughout the United States. Coker runs Coker Composting & Consulting and
has over 28 years of technical experience in all aspects of composting
facility planning, permitting, design, construction and operation.

 

This 40-hour course will offer detailed classroom lecture on compost science
and engineering, facility design, and compost use, valuable practice
problems and worksheet exercises, field exercises to learn procedures that
will improve composting operations, and tours of commercial-scale composting
facilities. Course tuition is $295 for USCC members and $345 for non-members
if registration is received before July 1, 2008.  After July 1, 2008, course
tuition is $345 for USCC members and $395 for non-members.


 


Lodging will be available at the Holiday Inn-Brownstone in downtown Raleigh
near NCSU for a special rate of $88 per night.  For more information, please
visit the USCC-NC webpage at www.carolinacompost.com
<http://www.carolinacompost.com/> .


 

 

Craig Coker

Coker Composting & Consulting

3331 Glade Creek Blvd., Ste. 7

Roanoke, VA 24012

Tel.: (540) 904-2698

Fax: (540) 904-6732

Cell: (540) 874-5168

Email: craigcoker at cox.net

Web: www.cokercompost.com