[USCC] private/public compost site arrangements

[Public]

The County of Santa Cruz partners with Vision Recycling to produce compost
at the County-owned landfill.  CTI bag system is used and the County
purchased the Versa bagger, bags and the shredder.  Vision supplies labor
and loaders.  The County gets 30% of the compost to use for their Compost
Demonstration Project and Vision sells the rest. Trucks of food scraps are
weighed and Vision gets the same payment per ton for composting the food
scraps as they get for making mulch out of the yard and wood waste that
crosses the scale. 

More information is available at
http://www.compostsantacruzcounty.org/Business_Composting/commercial_compost
.html.

Karin Grobe
Organic Recyclers Anonymous

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Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:07 PM
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Subject: [USCC] private/public compost site arrangements

Can anyone share some examples of private/public compost facility
arrangements?  Are there any with shared revenue arrangements?  Any
good examples of county/municipalities providing the land? What do
they get in return?  Nature of arrangements? etc.

ILSR will share this info with the Carroll County Environmental
Advisory Council (MD).  ILSR is advocating for composting in Carroll
and Frederick Counties, MD, in lieu of a planned waste incinerator.
For what it is worth, we are not paid consultants.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,

Brenda

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Brenda Platt
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
927 15th Street, NW, 4th Fl
Washington, DC  20005
202-898-1610 ext. 230
www.ilsr.org
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