[USCC] Food and yard waste co-composting BMPs

[Craig Coker]

Colleagues:

 

As part of a grant-funded project for EPA Region 3, the USCC has been asked
to prepare a Best Management Practices guidance document on how yard waste
composting facilities should handle and compost source-separated pre- and
post-consumer food scraps.  While the document will be (initially) focused
on the 480 yard waste composting operations in Pennsylvania, it will
obviously have broader applicability.

 

I ask for your advice as to what BMP documents on food waste composting you
might be aware of, and also for any good-quality digital pictures that can
be used to illustrate the document.  If available BMP documents are not in
the public domain, please let us know to whom copyright credit should be
given.  The types of pictures we are looking for would show yard waste
composting facilities (either public or private) that are accepting food
scraps. Pictures could include: waste unloading, windrow formation, windrow
mixing, covering windrows with fabric/compost/wood chips to minimize vector
attraction, etc.  If you provide pictures, please let us know who credit
should be given to.

 

Thanks, in advance, for any assistance you can provide.  If you have
questions, please contact either me or Cary Oshins, Assistant Director of
Programs

US Composting Council, 1010 North 13th St., Allentown, PA 18102, phone:
484-547-1521, fax: 484-274-6779, cary.oshins at compostingcouncil.org

 

Craig

 

Craig Coker | Coker Composting & Consulting

1213 Spradlin Rd., Vinton, VA 24179

Tel.: (540) 890-1086, Fax: (540) 890-1087

Cell: (540) 874-5168, Email: cscoker at verizon.net

Web: www.cokercompost.com.

 

 This e-mail communication (including any attachments) may contain legally
privileged and confidential information intended solely for the use of the
intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you should
immediately stop reading this message and delete it from your system. Any
unauthorized reading, distribution, copying or other use of this
communication (or its attachments) is strictly prohibited.