Food Scrap Composting Successes

Composting systems come in all shapes and sizes. This VORS 2021 panel represents different scales of commercial facilities, as well as on-farm composting.

Listen to this webinar to get an overview of these different types of operations, including permit size; accepted materials; recipe development and sourcing; hauler relations; customer training; marketing; and more. Through discussion you’ll learn about advantages or disadvantages to advancing to the next permit level; systems and process improvements; relationship building; as well as the challenges and opportunities that come with different scale and system choices.

Panelists and Video time stamps:

  • Athena Lee Bradley, Community scale composting, starts at 5:26

  • Eric Paris, On-farm composting, starts at 10:20

  • Bob Spencer, Small permitted facility, starts at 21:54

  • Trevor Mance, Medium permitted facility, starts at 32:28

  • Kim Stacey, Large permitted facility, starts at 47:29

  • Q&A starts at 1:02:47

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