Christina and Jeremiah Eneix of Green Earth Landworks in Anchorage Alaska purchases the compost produced by the XACT BioReactor which is owned and operated by Alaska Green Waste Solutions. The compost is produced using food waste, horse manure and wood chips.
Compost Blended with Top Soil
When Green Earth Landworks receives the compost, it is cured in static piles, and, due to the severity of the weather conditions, the piles are inoculated with a microbial package to enhance the final maturation of the compost. The mature compost is blended with top soil for bulk sales at the nursery. It is also used for top dressing, erosion control socks filler. These socks are used by the DOT which requires the compost be certified. The lab reports show that the compost passes all the tests with flying colors! Please get in touch if you would like a copy of the report!
This in-vessel rotating drum composter is composting food waste, and interestingly enough, the amendment being used in horse manure. The operators of this facility know that in order to get good quality compost out, they need to put the right blend of feedstocks in. The constraints of the blend consists of: 1) a proper percentage of moisture and 2) the correct proportion of Carbon to Nitrogen. Because the food waste stream on its own did not meet these constraints, there would need to be an amendment added to the food waste. The horse manure was available and also needed to be disposed of, so this composting facility determined the right blend of these 2 waste streams, and are now indeed, producing very good compost. No less than a triple win!
In-Vessel Rotating Drum BioReactor