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Competitive Composting

To the man in the street, compost is that heap of grass cuttings and fallen leaves that makes the end of his garden smell bad. But to those in the know, it is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting green business sectors in the world at the moment.

Long used in subsistence farming and home gardening for creating garden-ready soil, composting is becoming increasingly important and better understood as a tool for reducing municipal solid waste, and reducing the amount of green waste going into landfills.

The decomposition of organic material sent to landfills is a principal cause of methane, an important greenhouse gas, making reduction of organic waste being landfilled a key element in the fight against climate change.

Here at Dig A Screener, we are members of the Association for Organics Recycling and are offer a full range of screening buckets and stand-alone plants that are ideally suited to composting applications. In fact, click here to check out this new video of the Remu Combi Station to see what we mean.

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Scotland Announces Compost Trials

A new series of WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) projects being established across the country mean that Scotland is once again at the forefront of trialling innovative new applications for quality compost that will help shape policy and practice across the UK.

The trials - which are being conducted by Forestry Commission Scotland and SAC amongst others in partnership with WRAP - are designed to determine the commercial benefits of using quality compost in applications that range from soil improvement through to the establishment of woodland and biomass crops on brownfield land.

For further information, please click <a href=”http://www.wrap.org.uk/wrap_corporate/news/scotland_trials_set.html”>here</a>.

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WRAP backing quality compost

WRAP has announced a number of new trials to demonstrate the financial, practical and environmental case for using quality compost in applications that range from green roofs and rain gardens to the growing of bio-fuel crops on regenerated brownfield land.

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