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Container Composting Systems
Drum Composting Systems
Tunnel Composting Systems
Vermicompost Systems and Accessories
Other Types of Composting Systems
Business Food Waste Information
In-Vessel Composting Around the United States
Off-Site Composting Around the United States
Program Development Tools
Food Waste Collection Containers
Funding Sources
Other Composting Resources

Container Composting Systems

Engineered Compost Systems

http://www.compostsystems.com (external link)

Environmental Products & Technologies Corp.

http://www.eptcorp.com/index.html (external)

Green Mountain Technologies

http://www.gmt-organic.com (external)

NSI

http://www.angelfire.com/co3/NaturesSoil/soilution.html (external)

Renewable Carbon Management, LLC

http://www.composter.com (external)

Drum Composting Systems

Augspurger Engineering

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/FoodWaste/Compost/InVessel.htm (external)

B W Organics, Inc.

http://www.neto.com/bworgani/top.htm (external)

EnviroGro Solutions Inc. (ESI)

E-mail: bbiszick@hotmail.com

RKB Enterprises

E-mail: rkbe@cox.net

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Tunnel Composting Systems

Wright Environmental Management

http://www.wrightenvironmental.com (external)

Vermicompost Systems and Accessories

Biosystem Solutions

http://www.biosystemsolutions.com/ (external)

EPM Inc.

http://www.wormwigwam.com (external)

Green Culture/Composters.com

http://www.composters.com/docs/worms.html (external)

Happy D Ranch

http://www.happydranch.com (external)

Mini-Jet Worm Harvester

http://www.wormman.com/harvesters.htm (external)

Seattle Tilth

http://www.seattletilth.org (external)

Vermitech Systems

http://www.vermitechsystems.com (external)

Worm World

http://www.hky.com/~wormwrld/commercial.htm (external)

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Other Types of Composting Systems

Composters.com
Features a wide spectrum of smaller composting systems.

http://www.composters.com (external)

Contained Composting System Reviews

http://www.biocycle.net/BCArticles/2000/030030.html (external)

Peter Moon's Aeration Method

http://www.o2compost.com (external)

Transform Compost Systems
Produce turners, screens and custom-built systems.

http://www.transformcompost.com (external)

United Kingdom List of In-Vessel Systems

http://www.remade.org.uk/Organics/equipment_suppliers.htm#invessel (external)

University of California at Berkeley
Plans for the "Build-it-Yourself" Vermitopia Vermicomposting System.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~compost/binplans.html (external)

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Business Food Waste Information

Business Food Waste Briefing Paper – WasteCap Wisconsin

http://www.wastecapwi.org/documents/foodwaste.pdf (PDF, external)

Commercial Food Waste Composting Research Report 1998-99

http://cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/HORTIC/compost_food_98-99.pdf (PDF, external)

Sonoma County's Food Waste Web Site

http://cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/PUBS/Hortrpts/brochure.html (external)

Will Composting Work for Us? (A Clean Washington Center document)

http://www.cwc.org/organics/org976rpt.pdf (PDF, external)

Worms for Composting – Livestock technical note

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/vermicom.html (external)

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In-Vessel Composting Around the United States

California Grey Bears Project

http://www.dpw.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/large_compost_systems.html (external)

Eugene, Oregon, Public Schools On-Site Composting Program

http://www.ci.eugene.or.us/PDD/swr2/Composting/4JSchoolsEarthTubProject.htm (external)

Ithaca College Food Waste Composting Program

http://www.ithaca.edu/remp/composting.htm (external)

Medical University of South Carolina Vermicomposting System

http://www.musc.edu/recycle/vermicompost.htm (external)

Smuggler's Notch Resort's On-Site Composting System

http://www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/2000/090072.html (external)

University of Colorado's Food Waste Composting Pilot Program

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/docs/iwg/UniversityCompostingt.pdf (PDF, external)

University of Michigan/City of Ann Arbor Food Waste Collection and Composting Program

http://www.p2000.umich.edu/grounds_waste/gw4.htm (external)

University of New Hampshire Composting Pilot Project

http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/fas/compost/unh/report.html (external)

University of Washington's On-Site Composting Facility

http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/2000.05.MAY_04/_article4.html (external)

Vermicomposting at University of Massachusetts at Lowell

http://www.uml.edu/umlmainpage/umlnews/ViewArticle.asp?articleid=163 (external)

Waukesha Area Food Waste Recovery Pilot Report

http://www.wastecapwi.org/case_waukeshareport.htm (external)

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Vermicomposting System

http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/08/08062002/ap_48049.asp (external)

Wright's Foodliner of Eugene, Oregon

http://www.eugenerecycles.org/Composting/earthtubscompostproject.htm (external)

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Off-Site Composting Around the United States

California Hotels Doing Off-Site Composting

http://www.sfgov.org/sfenvironment/articles_pr/2003/article/061803.htm (external)

Program Development Tools

College Guide to Campus-Wide Composting – University of California at Davis

http://www.projectcompost.ucdavis.edu/Compost_Guide.pdf (PDF, external)

Restaurant Waste Reduction Guides

http://www.kppc.org/spotlight/foodservice/publications.cfm (external)

The Worm Guide – A Vermicomposting Guide for Teachers

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Publications/Schools/56001007.pdf (PDF, external)

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Food Waste Collection Containers

The items presented below represent a sample of the different types of containers available for collecting food waste and should not be considered as product endorsements.

Brute Big Wheel Container

http://www.rcpworksmarter.com/rcp/products/detail.jsp?categoryID=4&subcategoryID=57&rcpNum=3557 (external)

Brute Recycling Container

http://www.rcpworksmarter.com/rcp/products/detail.jsp?categoryID=4&subcategoryID=56&rcpNum=2620-06 (external)

Food Cycler – Bags for Food Waste Collection

http://www.woodsend.org/aaa/products.html (external)

French Kitchen Compost Pail

http://www.frenchgardening.com/item.tmpl?SKU=ACCU19 (external)

Kitchen Crock

http://www.gardeners.com/sell.asp?ProdGroupID=13006&CMP=IL8894 (external)

Step-On Can

http://www.rcpworksmarter.com/rcp/products/detail.jsp?categoryID=4&subcategoryID=238&rcpNum=6142 (external)

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Funding Sources

Washington State Department of Ecology, Coordinated Prevention Grant (CPG) –
Available to local governments only.

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/99507.html (external)

Environmental Research and Science Foundation, Solid Waste Management Grant

http://www.erefdn.org/guide.html (external)

Public Participation Grant (PPG) –
Available to citizen groups and non-profit organizations.

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/0007034.html (external)

Terry Husseman Sustainable School Award
Available to schools.

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/terryhusseman.html (external)

Other Composting Resources

Commercial Vermicomposting Systems

http://www.p2pays.org/ref/12/11443_files/frame.htm (external)

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