[USCC] Compost Oversize - what are the options?

[John Cossham]

I have two British built smoke-free woodstoves with which I heat my 
house, cook, heat bathwater, washing up water, etc.  Any branches I get 
as part of my composting ops are cut free of the smaller 
shreddable/compostable stuff and periodically cut to length, split, 
stacked, and when dry, feed my stoves.  This means I do not need to use 
central heating (which would use fossil gas).

As the realisation dawns that we have passed peak oil and that climate 
change is beginning to bite, we will be increasingly switching to 
renewable fuels.  Carbon-rich plant matter will become a more important 
part of how we provide heat and power.  I think that the organics 
recycling sector is in a good position to supply logs, woodchip and  
wood pellets direct to consumers or to processors who may be able to 
convert the cellulose/lignin to alcohols and/or oil substitutes.  We 
need to prepare for this eventuality.

John Cossham, York, UK


Jérémie VERDIER wrote:
> Hello Compost World,
>
> What do you do with your Oversize material you don't recirculate?
>
> As we run pure green waste composting site, our oversize is 90% branches
> composed.
> The 5 - 10% left is composed by plastics, glass and metals which could
> potentially be removed by a windsifter and a magnet.
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> *Jérémie Verdier*
>
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