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Composting: Understanding Nitrogen’s Role

Learn more about nitrogren and how it behaves in composting.

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Optimizing Food Waste Composting

This data from our Process Lab builds on previous research about the importance of a mesophilic phase at the beginning of a food waste composting process.

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Forced Aeration Composting

ECS whitepaper providing background and fundamentals of forced aeration composting.

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Best Management Practice for Composting High Nitrogen Feedstocks

Discover the steps needed to convert high nitrogen feedstocks into a compost mix with minimal odor and maximum decomposition rate.

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Commercial Food Waste Composting Best Practices

ECS whitepaper outlining key steps for efficiently composting commercial food waste with minimal odor.

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Biofilter Theory, Design, and Operation

Biofilters provide an important tool for reducing odors and emissions. This paper explains best practices to optimize biofilter performance.

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Oxygen Solubility in Compost: Odor Technical Guide

UK Environment Tech Guide oxygen solubility as it correlates with temperature

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Municipal Solid Waste Organics Processing

This is a technical document for communities considering options for processing organic waste and need more detailed, objective technical guidance and reliable information on the available...

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Manage Food Waste Compost Odour Emissions

Is your composting process beset by an odour emission problem? Don’t worry, Nordic Council of Ministers has financed a study providing practical instructions for food waste composting.

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Science of Efficient Composting

How acidity of household waste materials increases initial temperatures in composting process, and can have adverse effects in large-scale composting