“The coffee grounds are either turned into nutrient-rich compost and topsoil or turned into biogas,” a Nespresso spokesperson said in an email.
Growing Sense DIY: Indoor Composting
An outdoor compost often uses a bin system with chicken wire and lumber, but that can often be large and cumbersome for people of all abilities.
Grassroots Solutions for Solid Waste in China’s Growing Cities
In 2017, Roots and Shoots Chengdu incorporated kitchen garbage composting into one of its communities’ existing leaf compost efforts. “It took us …
Recycling Corner: Want to Know a Secret?
The DPW and Black Earth Compost Inc. have partnered to offer the service. What do they take? The list is pretty extensive, and it includes a lot of …
Mushroom crops yield millions
At Del Fresh, it all starts with the soil, which the company produces from raw wheat straw and cottonseed meal, along with 100 tons of compost a …
World Biogas Association touts benefits of AD in new report
This report highlights a number of food waste processing technologies — AD, in-vessel composting, windrow composting, liquefaction and rendering …
Flo Presents Gea, a New Generation of Coffee Capsules Developed with NatureWorks
PLA, which is a renewably sourced polymer that is certified for industrial composting systems according to global standards such as EN-13432 (EU) …
Prince George’s County, Md., to Expand Organics Composting Facility
Prince George’s County, Md., announced the expansion of its Organics Composting Facility, which will be the largest food waste composting facility on …
A Craven diary
NOW spring is finally with us, and summer hopefully not too far away, gardeners all over Craven may be thinking about composting, which after all is …
Scott Blunk
When Blunk started, the composting site covered an acre of land, and more than half of it was taken up by a massive pile of cow poop that Blunk …