Composting Aeration Floor Fundamentals

News ECS Staff 12/09/2021

Learn more about composting aeration floor fundamentals in the article we co-published on BioCycle! ECS president and founder Tim O’Neill partnered with Craig Coker, Senior Editor at BioCycle and principal of Coker Composting & Consulting, to co-author an article on the types of aeration floors and their benefits.

“Increasingly, compost manufacturers — both existing and newcomers — are opting to use aerated static piles (ASP) systems to increase throughput on the same footprint, and to improve control of odor and air emissions.

Craig Coker & Tim O’Neill
Below grade sparger pipes with risers are under the primary aeration floor at Napa Recycling in Napa, CA.