Is composting an agricultural pursuit or agricultural. Well, that could never be a question asked in Europe where there are a ton of composting regulations which define such matters. It would presumably be a waste management activity if composting municpal wastes such as yard waste? Red on to find out… vtdigger.org Shaftsbury controversy colors revision of compost rules vtdigger.org Part of [...] Read more »
UK Food Waste Collections to Get Additional Government Funding
The news media in Composting is positively buzzing with the news of a big slice of WRAP money from the UK govermnent which is aimed during this coming financial year to propping up and developing local authority collection of household Food Waste Collections . This will aid the UK in meeting the next rise in the targets for recycling which [...] Read more »
Christmas Gifts for Gardeners
Christmas gifts for gardeners is not News! I hear you say. No! I agree it isn’t, but a number of journals are treating it as news and posting arctiles on the subject of Christmas gifts for gardeners, so we thought we would “go with the flow” too! For many people it is a subject taxing their minds and it is [...] Read more »
Community Garden Composting
Winter and approaching Christmas festivities brings a break from gardening at this time of year, when community gardeners can take mental stock of their year, and also find time to publicize their garden successes and feature their composting efforts over the preceding seasons, such as in community garden composting. The two articles we feature below are examples of just that [...] Read more »
How to Start a Compost – Learn the Right Way
So, your beds are dug and you have used all the compost you had, perhaps left by a past gardener? That’s when people want to know “How to Start a compost”. Well, one method is to make a compost trench, and during the season that follows to grow a very soil fertility demanding crop. At the Portsmouth News they know [...] Read more »
Lamont Composting Facility May Be Fined After Suspected Hydrogen Sulphide Fumes Cause Death of Two Workers
Californian’s should all be ashamed of this incident and the manner that such accidents can be allowed to happen in a developed country, let alone the wealthiest. Did Cal-OSHA not make any inspections of the facility and raise concerns about lax operating procedures prior to this event? I quote from the Bakersfield.Com article: Cal-OSHA has reported that 16-year-old Armando Ramirez, [...] Read more »
