COMPOSTING..
Global Impact has been working with several Coal companies in Northern
West Virginia to try and find a suitable site that we can get donated to commit
the land for a local/regional compost facility that can also be used for
research and development of recycling and composting programs to improve upon
existing systems and programs. With the help of our staff and you we can make
this a reality. Please let us know of any land that may be suitable and could be
donated as a tax deductible donation to Global Impact Inc. We are a 501c3
organization. Thanks for all your support.
MM
Here at Global Impact we are attempting
to create legislation toward a common practice of all states to set up a
composting program . Starting on the local level, we are trying to set legislation
into place creating a composting facility for the redirection of compostable materials
to, instead of the landfills. This program will need public education and
support.
How the program will work.
The program is structured
as; to charge the clients of waste removal with
an annual composting fee which will allow them to dispose of all of their
compostable debris once or twice a month of any volume with some parameters set
for size and containment. This will then be hauled to the composting facility
where it will be pulverized, mixed, windrowed and allowed to decay into a usable byproduct that can be
packaged and redistributed for sale.
The pie chart above indicates what percent of our garbage is
compostable.
Vermicomposting
Vermicomposting is the application of composting with
worms. Red worms are used to eat the organic matter and change it into a usable
form called castings. Castings are full of available nutrients for plants.
Red worms are also known as red wigglers and can usually be
found in any manure pile. They live close to the soil surface as to eat decaying
organic matter. These amazing little creature can eat up to half their body
weight or more daily. So two pound of worms (Roughly 2000 worms) can eat
as much as much as one pound of kitchen scraps or other type of organic waste.
Red worm composting can be done indoors
as well as outside. Indoors there is little or no smell associated with them.
The type of composting units now available offer a bio filter to allow for air
filtration but not odor movement. The worms eat through the the organics as you
place them into the unit. This leaves a nice deposit of castings at the bottom
of the unit where you harvest the end product. They need a moist environment,
but not too wet. Usually you can do a squeeze test to tell. If you squeeze and
water runs out it is too wet. Don't keep it too dry though. Roughly 90% is just
right.
More information on
Composting with Worms
www.biocorpusa.com/html/composting.html
www.gvrd.bc.ca/waste/bro/swcomsc.html
www.cfe.cornell.edu/compost/science.html
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/1997/971020.htm
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