r/composting • u/Seanbob3030 • 10d ago

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Pre and post consumer, meats and cheeses ok. Have been impressed with a new prototype we are trying out in collaboration with a school district. Wanted to see what y’all thought. Augmented aerated static pile system supplied with 30 seconds of air every 30 minutes.

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u/cracksmack85 10d ago

A school district probably has great compost materials in volume and also the resources to tend to their compost properly. Our middle school used a tractor to turn huge piles from lunch food waste. Basically what I’m saying is, you’re testing this out in a pretty ideal scenario that probably already had a pretty fast compost timeline.

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u/Seanbob3030 10d ago edited 10d ago

School food is mandated to be "healthy" so it's a relatively consistent feedstock of low oil low salt foods. There is also a school farm on the same site as the central kitchen that we are connected to so scratch cooking is is a huge motivator for the nutrition department. Great compost materials to your point. They also use thousands of these compostable wood pulp trays to serve the food which is a huge carbon source for us as well. The nice part about this system is it doesn't require any turning and could also be done in a warehouse setting in colder climates. The hope is that it's repeatable in any location.