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!
We got a call a while back from a very smart farmer who has been putting compost on a crop field for 3 years now. In comparison, he has another crop field where he has not applied compost at all. This spring when he worked up the fields, he made a significant discovery. In the field without compost, he had to drive his tractor 2 miles / hour slower (than the composted field) and used 16 gallons/hour of diesel fuel. On the field with compost, he was able to drive his tractor 2 miles / hour faster and only used 7 gallons of diesel fuel / hour. With the cost of fuel these days, this is truly a significant savings. If you are looking for ways to cut operating costs, here is a sure fire one. Plus, the in-vessel, rotating drum
XACT BioReactor Composting Manure
BioReactor can turn your manure into pathogen free compost in 3 to 4 days which can also be used as bedding for the herd as well as a soil amendment. When you start to calculate ALL the savings, the XACT BioReactor offers a return on your investment which out performs any other piece of equipment you will have on your farm. If this seems hard to believe, just give us a call to check it out for your farming operation. Many thanks. D
If you compost the residue from the anaerobic digestion process with XACT’s BioReactor, then you will be extracting all the value from the waste. After all, isn’t that what we are going for? The extraction of methane and generation of electricity is great as far as it goes, but there is tremendous value still remaining in the waste from this process. Taking advantage of this value is easy with the composter by XACT. The resulting compost is bankable both from a commodity point of view and soil amendment point of view.
Compost made by the BioReactor is high quality therefore demanding a higher price than average. Or, it replaces sand or sawdust as a bedding material therefore eliminating out-sourced bedding material. Or, compost reconditions crop fields (with numerous benefits) so that fertilizer costs will be reduced. So, please consider composting as the final stage of the anaerobic digester process and reap ALL the benefits. Leave nothing to waste!
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
Check out the new website with the new video of the XACT BioReactor for making compost from waste. Please feel free to contact us and ask for the full length video to show your colleagues and/or boss. It could be the best move you make for the success of your company and you!