We are proud that USCC recognized the Napa Recycling team’s exceptional operation and successful track record (Will Kelley accepting the award in the picture below). For nearly three years the Napa team has composted over 60,000 tpy of a wide and varying range of organic feedstocks in their ECS supplied CASP system and kept in compliance with their stringent air permit.
Will Kelly of Napa Waste and Recycling Services accepts USCC Award
Site Visits:
We would especially like to thank the Burrtec Team, who generously hosted tours at both their Agua Mansa (shown below) and West Valley composting facilities.
USCC tour at Burrtec’s Agua Mansa Compost Facility
Outstanding Presentations:
We enjoy hearing what others in our industry are learning. We caught a few great sessions including:
Decontamination – Best Practices and New tools – which featured industry leaders and how their teams are managing contaminated feedstocks. Not only was this relevant to our industry – but also applies to the general public. Everyone should take part in decontaminating organic residuals – help train your freinds and relatives to be part of the solution!
Operator Roundtable : Employee Attraction and Retention; ROI on Safety programs – where leaders shared strategies and benefits of making their businesses great places to work.
Understanding the Short- and Long-Term Soil Carbon Storage Benefits of Compost Application to Agricultural Systems – Karen Hill shared interesting information regarding how composting benefits carbon soil storage.
ECS is committed to helping our customers maximize composting stabilization while minimize capital cost. Our designs focus on optimizing process control, which thereby:
-speeds up the process
-shortens the required retention time
-minimizes the footprint and associated costs
Here are some examples where we have helped deliver systems within customer defined budgets.
Composting is a biological process which slows down when material freezes. Fortunately, ECS has developed some cold weather techniques to facilitate semi-optimized process conditions even during harsh winters. See some of our cold weather deployments below, and contact us to learn more.
ECS applies composting science and best engineering practices to our equipment designs to facilitate process control and enable our customers to achieve low odor operations. We also work to provide operator training and the automated tools to monitor key performance indicators. Learn more below, or contact us to schedule a visit and 'smell the difference'.
ECS strives to understand our customers target markets and stability goals to help us develop correctly sized systems. We use a mix of technology and operational procedures to optimize process control and stabilization rates. See some of our example projects below that use different ECS tools to meet customer Product Maturity goals.
