среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Community improvement: Composting yard trimmings in Ireland

Project to provide a seasonal outlet for Dublin's Christmas trees grows into a low tech composting operation handling up to 1,500 cubic meters of feedstock per week.

THE 1996 Waste Management Act recently made Irish waste management priorities similar to those of the European Community. These include such tactics as encouraging waste minimization and recovery and diverting 25 percent of waste from conventional disposal outlets (primarily landfilling) by 1999. Ireland's National Waste Database, published in 1995, estimated that household waste consists (by weight) of 36 percent organic materials, while the commercial waste stream contains 22 percent organics. Although no formal …

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