Compost Pile

!±8± Compost Pile

Compost piles may be planned or they may just happen. In one very real sense the forest floor is a compost pile. Dig below the top half inch or so and you find compost formed and forming. What we think of as the compost pile is in its best form the carefully thought out imitation of what has been going on in nature since before the beginning of time.

There are both planned and unplanned compost piles around my home. The area where I prepare wood for burning and for wood turning has several pile of shavings and chain saw chips from cutting the wood. Some of these piles have been there for five years or more. At the bottom of these piles it is rich and dark and earthy smelling where the compost has formed. People think that it takes long years for wood shavings to break down but for many species of tree that is not so. At the lumber mill where piles of sawdust are high and the bottoms are compressed from the weight of tons of material, it may take a long time for composting to happen, but many trees are designed by God or nature, depending on your interpretation, to rot quickly. These are trees like the poplar and birch that come quickly after a fire and die and rot quickly to enrich the forest floor.

Some of these unplanned compost piles get used for mulch on the gardens. The rest are moved to the formal compost pile out back. This is a three compartment bin and what most would think of as a compost pile. Actually, it is more planned than strictly necessary. A pile of plant material will gradually rot into compost as long as it has moisture available. The bins simply make the organization easier and the appearance keeps my wife happier.

An organized pile composts quicker and may make better compost if it is ever possible to have bad compost. At the side of the bins is an informal pile of shavings from the wood turning to be used as brown material for the pile. Autumn leaves collected and piled would do as well as might old straw or the like. The first compartment stores material as it is gathered for the pile. Every addition of green material like garden waste or kitchen trimmings is matched with an equal amount of shavings. Gradually the compartment fills and when it has it is turned into the second compartment. I think of this turning which mixes the materials, adds air and allows for moisture to be checked as the real building of the pile. If I turn the pile from compartment two to compartment three and back again every three or four days, I can have finished compost in two to three weeks. Then it is time to make another compost pile.

Compost Pile

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Envirocycle Original Composter Black

!±8± Envirocycle Original Composter Black

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Envirocycle Original Composter Black

The EnvirocycleTMOriginal Composter/ComposteamakerTM was the first in the world to collect liquid compost tea - a powerful fertilizer. This distinctive 2 in 1 compost tumbler makes it easier and faster to generate nutrient rich compost year round. Simply give the drum a few turns and your compost remains well mixed while the unique base design simultaneously collects compost tea, producing two excellent natural fertilizers. This organic plant food can be used can be used for houseplants, outdoor plants, trees , lawns and gardens. Spinning the composter at least 3 times a week and adding the right mix of organic matter, will produce dark, rich, odourless organic compost in 4-6 weeks. The urban-savvy spinning composter, made by EnvirocycleTM Systems, is made with a high percentage of post-consumer and post-industrial recycled plastic, and comes pre-assembled and ready to use. The 3.8 gallon removable base collects compost tea while eight built-in rollers help mix in oxygen and speed up decomposition. Its 7 cu.ft capacity is enough to handle large outdoor uses. The hassle free timeless design created in 1991, ideally suits today's urban lifestyle allowing for easy placement on patios, garages or gardens. The EnvirocycleTMComposter/Composteamaker makes it simple to keep the earth green for generations to come.

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3 Things To Avoid When Designing Leachate Collection Systems

!±8± 3 Things To Avoid When Designing Leachate Collection Systems

Go to a Yahoo or Google search window and type in designing leachate collection systems. People do this every single day. It's routine. They actually do it and click the button to search. What were they thinking when they did that? There is an almost limitless range of reasons. There are both negative and positive reasons.

Positive reasons are pleasure-seeking reasons. Gaining something you would like or increasing what you already have. The negative reasons are typically pain avoidance; looking to avoid something you don't wish. In most things that motivate people are dominated by, either the positive aspects or the negative aspects take the lead. In this article we will be focusing on the pain-avoidance or negative side of living.

Let's examine the three main reasons, points, mistakes or actions that any person may want to avoid here. Simply for background understanding you'll need to know designing leachate collection systems. More specifically, you need to know how to stop them blocking, corroding, or collapsing.

So what exactly are the problems, those items we must avoid? And why would it be important to not have them? Well, when we are dealing with leachate collection systems, you will likely need to ensure that they will least for as long as the landfill.

Let's quickly consider and analyze the 3 things you really should avoid:

First off, don't make the pipework too narrow in diameter. This will be very important because although flows in the base of a landfill are quite low, allowance should be allowed for siltation and the build-up of organic/fungal beneath a landfill. Just how do I tell if this is sufficient? Say keep diameters to say 150mm nominal diameter at least, no matter what the flow will be ).

Next, choose an non-corrodible pipework material in leachate collection systems as far as is possible. And why is that? Leachate in leachate collection systems can be quite heavily corrosive. And how will we determine what is sufficient? Maybe choose plastic materials as pipe materials.

Finally, don't forget that some plastics pipe materials are better than others for withstanding long periods at high temperatures. This is because many landfills have been measured with temperatures in the centre at about 45 degrees centigrade. How will you tell whether it is enough or not? Unfortunately, the oldest landfills with leachate collection systems installed to modern EU standards are no older than 30 years approximately, so how well they will be faring when 50 years old or older, let alone 100 years old, we can only predict, but not see in-situ yet.

Whenever you avoid these three items you will likely have avoided the most significant and most important negatives. This would do a lot in helping you solve, remove or avoid the potential problems. The problems that must have originally been worrying lots of individuals who typed designing leachate collection systems into an Internet search engine window.

3 Things To Avoid When Designing Leachate Collection Systems

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Homemade Compost Tumbler

!±8± Homemade Compost Tumbler

A homemade compost tumbler can be useful in a few situations, maybe you don't want a compost pile in your yard, maybe piles just aren't allowed in your neighborhood, or you don't have the space. There is quite a few alternatives that can be used to make compost without having to use a pile. In this article I'm going to be talking about one way to do it, a simple homemade compost tumbler.

Homemade Compost Tumbler

1. Go to the hardware store and buy a plastic trash can. You'll probably want to buy one of the heavy duty "contractor" grade trash cans. One of the inexpensive trash cans isn't likely to stand up to the wear and tear that this can is going to be put through.

2. Fill the can with plant materials. Fill your can only about 3/4 of the way to leave plenty of air space. Try to put in a variety of materials, add them in layers of greens such as grass clippings, kitchen scraps, garden cuttings and other wet green materials, then add a layer of browns such as twigs, dry leaves, straw, wood shavings and other dry brown materials.

3. Push the can over and roll it around every day. Pushing the can over and rolling it will aerate and mix the contents of the can. Doing this every day will help the bacteria break down all the materials quickly, possibly creating finished compost in as little as two weeks.

Using a trash can to make a homemade compost tumbler is sort of a stealth way of composting. There's many more ways to compost materials, they just require a little creativity.

Homemade Compost Tumbler

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