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The Compost Crusade Continues: Wilmington’s New Organic Recycling Center!

For those of you who attended the Vermicomposting Event at the Art In The Age Store in November (and those of us who are concerned citizens, interested in reducing our carbon footprint!), may be interested to hear about a new initiative in neighboring Wilmington, Delaware, that takes composting to the municipal scale!

Opening this month, Peninsula Compost Group will open a new facility for composting yard and food waste from residents and businesses.

From Delaware Online:

Peninsula Compost Co.’s Wilmington Organic Recycling Center expects to take in about 150 tons of yard waste, food castoffs and other goods from around the region to start. Volumes are expected to grow to 500 tons a day and 160,000 tons a year, company spokesman Scott Woods said — nearly a third of the annual total sent to Cherry Island Landfill in east Wilmington.The site, along Christiana Avenue, will decompose blends of woody and food wastes in long, narrow rows under a high-tech cover made of Gore fabric sandwiched between special plastics. The “Gore Cover” system, said by Gore to be used at 150 composting sites around the world, allows moisture and carbon dioxide to escape as waste breaks down into compost, while trapping odor-producing gases for removal and filtration.

The era of landfills is over, and the time of land STEWARDSHIP is at hand. This is a great example of acting locally and thinking globally by combining composting efforts that previously, had been conducted on the individual residential scale. West coast cities have hopped onto this train already…it’s about time for some East coast municipal composting action!

See more photos of the Wilmington facility HERE.

Read more at Delaware Online:

Delaware business: Composting plant set to open near Wilmington

Green process could be first of its size on the East Coast

Written by robin on 12/12/2009 in Activism | Architecture | Blog | Causes | Food | Gardening | News

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  That's is a very good news for the environmentalist.

  However most of the developing countries are far apart from these initiative; a at the same time this also have to consider that they also have to facilitate financially to set up such an expensive plat!

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