Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties. It is commonly prepared...
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In agriculture, windrow composting is the production of compost by piling organic matter or biodegradable waste, such as animal manure and crop residues...
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Vermicompost (redirect from Worm compost)
Vermicompost (vermi-compost) is the product of the decomposition process using various species of worms, usually red wigglers, white worms, and other...
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Human composting (also known as soil transformation) is a process for the final disposition of human remains in which microbes convert a deceased body...
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A composting toilet is a type of dry toilet that treats human waste by a biological process called composting. This process leads to the decomposition...
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Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting is a 2015 gardening book about extreme composting written by David the Good. "Extreme Composting...
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A compost heater (or Biomeiler) is a structure for the energetic use of biomass for the heating of buildings. A method relying on biological wood oxidation...
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Home composting is the process of using household waste to make compost at home. Composting is the biological decomposition of organic waste by recycling...
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Biodegradable plastic (redirect from Compostable plastic)
is compostable, but non-biodegradable according to American and European standards because it does not biodegrade outside of artificial composting conditions...
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(ASP) composting refers to any of a number of systems used to biodegrade organic material without physical manipulation during primary composting. The...
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Potting soil (redirect from Potting compost)
Potting soil or growing media, also known as potting mix or potting compost (UK), is a substrate used to grow plants in containers. The first recorded...
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Bokashi (horticulture) (redirect from Bokashi composting)
adds nutrients and improves soil texture. It differs from traditional composting methods in several respects. The most important are: The input matter...
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Spent mushroom compost is the residual compost waste generated by the mushroom production industry. It is readily available (bagged, at nursery suppliers)...
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Dot-com bubble (redirect from Dot-compost)
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of...
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Municipal solid waste (redirect from Municipal composting)
green waste, paper (most can be recycled, although some difficult to compost plant material may be excluded) Recyclable materials: paper, cardboard...
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composting generally describes a group of methods that confine the composting materials within a building, container, or vessel. In-vessel composting...
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Danish Carbon Fund's (DCF) Lahore Composting Facility project is the first of its kind in Pakistan. It is bringing composting technology to a country where...
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The Ecuador composting method is a common composting practice in the lowlands of Ecuador and Peru. The compost pile is embedded on the tree trunk or banana...
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waste, manure, slurry, and guano; plus plant based fertilizers such as compost; and biosolids. Inorganic "organic fertilizers" include minerals and ash...
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formerly the Association for Organics Recycling (AfOR) and before that the Composting Association, is the leading trade organisation for the biodegradable waste...
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John Innes compost is a set of four soil-based formulae for growing media, developed at the former John Innes Horticultural Institution (JIHI), now the...
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waste, also known as "biological waste", is any organic waste that can be composted. It is most usually composed of refuse from gardens such as grass clippings...
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Jean Pain (section Composting method)
a Swiss-born French inventor and innovator who developed the compost heater, a compost-based bioenergy system, that produced 100% of his energy needs...
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Perionyx excavatus (redirect from Indian blues (composting earthworms))
commercially produced earthworm. Popular names for this species include composting worms, blues, or Indian blues. This species is marketed for its ability...
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Biodegradation (section Biodegradation vs. composting)
generally assumed to be a natural process, which differentiates it from composting. Composting is a human-driven process in which biodegradation occurs under a...
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Reuse of human excreta (section Composted feces)
dehydration of feces (urine-diverting dry toilets), composting (composting toilets or external composting processes), sewage sludge treatment technologies...
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Compost Records is a German record label based in Munich and established by Michael Reinboth in 1993. The label is known for progressive downbeat dance...
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Hügelkultur (category Composting)
technique where a mound constructed from decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass plant materials is later (or immediately) planted as a raised...
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Carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (category Composting)
sediments and soil including soil organic matter and soil amendments such as compost. In the analysis of sediments, C/N ratios are a proxy for paleoclimate...
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