The Composting Handbook : A how-to and why manual for farm, municipal, institutional and commercial composters Paperback / softback
Edited by Robert (Professor Emeritus, Cobleskill College of Agriculture and Technology, State University Rynk, Ginny (Compost Research and Education Foundation (CREF) and Minnesota Composting Council (MNC Black, Jane (Carbon Clarity, Ltd., Rushden, Northamptonshire, UK) Gilbert, Johannes (Centre for Recycling of Organic Waste & Nutrients (CROWN), The University of Queens Biala, Jean (Cornell Waste Management Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) Bonhotal, Mary (Research Support Specialist, Cornell Waste Management Institute, Cornell University, Schwarz, Leslie (Ph.D., Founder and Co-Owner of Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery, Former Professor Cooperband
Paperback / softback
Description
The Composting Handbook provides a single guide to the science, principles and best practices of composting for large-scale composting operations facing a variety of opportunities and challenges converting raw organic materials into a useful and marketable product. Composting is a well-established and increasingly important method to recycle and add value to organic by-products.
Many, if not most, of the materials composting treats are discarded materials that would otherwise place a burden on communities, industries, farms and the environment.
Composting converts these materials into a valuable material, compost, that regenerates soils improving soils for plant growth and environmental conservation. The Composting Handbook expands on previously available resources by incorporating new information, new subjects and new practices, drawing its content from current scientific principles, research, engineering and industry experience.
In both depth and breadth, it covers the knowledge that a compost producer needs to succeed.
Topics include the composting process, methods of composting, equipment, site requirements, environmental issues and impacts, business knowledge, safety, and the qualities, uses and markets for the compost products. The Composting Handbook is an invaluable reference for composting facility managers and operators, prospective managers and operators, regulators, policy makers, environmental advocates, educators, waste generators and managers and generally people interested in composting as a business or a solution.
It is also appropriate as a textbook for college courses and a supplemental text for training courses about composting or organic waste management.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1002 pages, 275 illustrations (250 in full color); Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Elsevier Science & Technology
- Publication Date:08/12/2021
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- ISBN:9780323856027
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1002 pages, 275 illustrations (250 in full color); Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Elsevier Science & Technology
- Publication Date:08/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780323856027
