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2. Source-separated organics - Wikipedia

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   Organic materials collected in SSO programs typically get delivered to composting facilities where the waste is turned into nutrient-rich soil amendments known as compost. Organic feedstock can also be delivered to anaerobic digestion facilities that produce biogas, a source of renewable energy. The resulting biogas (methane) can then be used ...

3. Home composting - Wikipedia

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   Composting is the biological decomposition of organic waste by recycling food and other organic materials into compost. [1] Home composting can be practiced within households for various environmental advantages, such as increasing soil fertility, reduce landfill and methane contribution, and limit food waste. [2]

4. Compost - Wikipedia

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   Methodologies for organic composting were part of traditional agricultural systems around the world. Composting began to modernize somewhat in the 1920s in Europe as a tool for organic farming. [100] The first industrial station for the transformation of urban organic materials into compost was set up in Wels, Austria, in the year 1921. [101]

5. Reuse of human excreta - Wikipedia

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   SOIL's two composting waste treatment facilities currently transform over 20,000 gallons (75,708 liters) of human excreta into organic, agricultural-grade compost every month. [67] The compost produced at these facilities is sold to farmers, organizations, businesses, and institutions around the country to help finance SOIL's waste treatment ...

6. Bokashi (horticulture) - Wikipedia

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   Spent soil or compost, and organic amendments such as biochar may be added, as may non-fermented material, in which case the boundary between bokashi and composting becomes blurred. A proposed alternative [ 20 ] is to homogenise (and potentially dilute) the preserve into a slurry, which is spread on the soil surface.

7. Windrow composting - Wikipedia

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   Windrow turner used on maturing piles at a biosolids composting facility in Canada. Maturing windrows at an in-vessel composting facility.. In agriculture, windrow composting is the production of compost by piling organic matter or biodegradable waste, such as animal manure and crop residues, in long rows – windrow.