[GreenYes] Re: [CRRA] Ordinances that facilitate on-farm composting

["Nancy Poh" <nancypoh@no.address>]

Hi Dr Knapp


There should be a place for us to file politically correct way to call unwanted material because, "One man's junk is another man's treasure".  I have discovered one website that provides such glossary and "recycle nutrients" has not made the list yet.


http://www.wasteawarescotland.org.uk/html/glossary.asp


In my case as I teach others to create practical stuff out of things that they would otherwise discard, these are words I have created to add glamour to their creations:


unwanted material = abandoned material

people who create out of abandoned material = Creative Recyclers

art of creating from abandoned material, such as, plastic bag = plastic bag arty-fication or recycle nutrients arty-fication

abandoned material creation = artified creation 


You do not need a machine to turn organic recycle nutrients (can be a mouthful phrase to use) into compost.  There is a method call pit or "trench composting" whereby you dig a trench to hold them.  This method ease soil rotation.  There is a very good diagram at the following link to show how it is done.


http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/homecompost/methods.html#5


Rgds

Nancy



<-----Original Message-----> 

>From: Dan Knapp [dr.ore@no.address]

>Sent: 6/20/2007 9:01:31 AM

>To: gary@no.address

>Cc:

>dr.ore@no.address;stephanie.barger@no.address;michael.wonsidler@no.address;michael.wonsidler@no.address;crra_members@no.address;GreenYes@no.address;zerowaste_sd@no.address

>Subject: Re: [GreenYes] Re: [CRRA] Ordinances that facilitate on-farm composting

>

>Hello all:

>

>

>Regarding the regulations governing composting on farms in Pennsylvania:

>

>

>I respectfully submit that using the word "waste" when what you actually mean is

>"recycle nutrients" is just the worst industrial positioning imaginable for

>composting. Wastes are worthless, but nutrients, properly managed, can be quite

>valuable.

>

>

>I've seen waste composting, and it wasn't pretty. I just remember an unusually

>very smelly dirty mrf in Michigan somewhere and a big nearby field on which was

>parked a forlorn compost turning machine with its flails completely fouled and

>immobilized by film plastic bags. The compost windrows were full of plastic and

>who knows what else. But the field they sat on was a real field used for

>corn/soybean rotation. That dirt got a big dose of garbage, some of which is

>probably still there.

>

>

>What does it matter that the materials have been discarded from one source, so

>long as they can become valuable feedstocks after they've been upgraded by

>recovery enterprises to market specs? Clean in, Clean out. Source separation is

>best practice. Nutrient recycling is best positioning. Regulations should say

>what we want, not just what we don't want. And farmers using clean nutrient

>recycling practices should be regulated least, not most.

>

>

>Regulations need to be rewritten top to bottom to remove waste management

>vocabulary, which stifles and retards ecologically superior disposal methods.

>There are better ways to talk about what we do.

>

>

>Thanks for the chance to comment.

>

>

>Dan Knapp

>Urban Ore, Inc., a Berkeley reuse and recycling business.

>

>

>

>

>On Jun 19, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Gary Liss wrote:

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>

>Michael,

>

>Consider the regulations governing composting on farms in Pennsylvania. That's

>supposed to be a model:

>

>On-Farm Composting (PA Dept. of Environmental Protection)

>http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/landrecwaste/cwp/view.asp?A=1338&Q=497955 

>Permitting Exemptions 

>Agricultural waste used as part of normal farming operations. See 287.101 for

>details.

>http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/dep/redirector.asp?u=http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/025/chapter287/s287.101.html

>

>Best Practices for Environmental Protection in the Mushroom Farm Community:

>http://164.156.71.80/VWRQ.asp?docid=2087d8407c0e0000000005e2000005e2&context=2&backlink=WXOD.aspx?fs=2087d8407c0e0000800005b6000005b6&ft=1

>

>Food waste used as part of normal farming operations. See 287.101 for details. 

>The Food Processing Residual Management Manual (eLibrary):

>http://164.156.71.80/WXOD..aspx?fs=2087d8407c0e0000800005b7000005b7&ft=1 

>On-Farm Organic Waste Composting Facility Application Form:

>http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/landrecwaste/lib/landrecwaste/composting/GP-Farm_Ap.doc

>

>Also, check out the following fact sheets and guides:

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>

>On-Farm Composting Handbook by the Natural Resource, Agriculture, and

>Engineering Service at Cornell University: 

>http://www.nraes.org/nra_order.taf?_function=detail&pr_id=60&_UserReference=33401D454D94D35A467866F7

>

>On-Farm Composting Fact Sheet, Penn State, Agricultural Engineering:

>http://www.age.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/c/C3.pdf 

>Gary

>

>At 03:47 PM 6/19/2007, Stephanie Barger wrote:

>

>Hi Michael

>

>You might want to check with some actual farms/farming 

>

>Fetzer wines uses alot of composting and we just had Strauss Family Farms speak

>at our Zero Waste event and they get 95% of all their energy from their manure

>and then use the residual for composting!

>

>http://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/

>

>Stephanie Barger, Executive Director

>stephanie.barger@no.address

>Earth Resource Foundation

>P.O. Box 12364

>Costa Mesa, CA 92627

>www.earthresource.org 

>949-645-5163

>

>"Learn more about Zero Waste! Presentations from Earth Resource Foundation's

>Second Annual Orange County "Zero In on Zero Waste: Don't Let Your Bottom Line

>Go to Waste" Conference on June 7th, 2007 are posted

>http://www.earthresource.org/zerowaste.html

>

>

>

>

>From: crra_members@no.address [ mailto:crra_members@no.address] On

>Behalf Of Wonsidler, Michael

>Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:22 AM

>To: crra_members@no.address; GreenYes@no.address;

>zerowaste_sd@no.address

>Subject: [CRRA] Ordinances that facilitate on-farm composting

>Importance: High

>

>The County of San Diego is discussing revising local ordinances

>

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