Carbon footprint, waste disposal, recycling and environmental responsibility. These words are all part of our modern vocabulary.
I'd like to show you a nice solution for gardeners and landscapers that have too much waste to compost themselves.
Once when I visited Mexico the air was always thick with smoke as everyone was burning the garden waste! Where I live there is another solution available!
Where I live burning waste is not permitted so they have the solution seen below!
This video shows where I drop off the cuttings from our home
Composting Area of The Forestry Nursery
This is a Google translate from their website ( I was too lazy to do it!):
"The composting square in Lattecaldo located within the cantonal forest nursery is an innovative structure for the recycling of vegetable waste according to the laws on waste disposal.
The idea of using plant waste produced in the Muggio Valley and turning it into compost was born in 1985.
The nursery grounds impoverished by a long and intensive management required a continuous supply of organic matter.
Taking advantage of the introduction of the ban on the lighting of outdoor fires, it was decided to carry out the composting of vegetable waste in the Muggio Valley.
It was an innovative and far-sighted project.
This project would in fact have achieved the objective of recovering and enhancing a local vegetable raw material that would then be reused directly in the nursery for fertilizing the fields and for the production of potted seedlings.
As a direct consequence the use of natural fertilizers, chemicals and plant protection products would have been reduced.
Thanks to the upgrading works carried out between 2010 and 2011, the plant guarantees a control of the incoming material, an optimized composting process, the verification of the suitability of the outgoing product, and the on-site purification of rainwater and exercise.
The entire process complies with the current requirements regarding environmental protection.
Today the composting plant of the forest nursery is at the forefront in technical and management terms.
It also uses a phyto-purification system for waste substances that allows the accumulation of purified water in a special basin, thus avoiding the use of very precious reserves of spring-fed drinking water.
Currently the quantities of plant material delivered to the composting square are around 500 tons.
The compost produced meets the high quality requirements and is largely reserved for the needs of the Cantonal Agricultural Company of Mezzana, favoring an ideal synergy between the two state-owned companies.
In addition, however, there are many private gardeners and municipalities that take advantage of this product for local vegetable gardens, parks and parks."
What About You?
- What do you do with your garden waste if there is too much for you to compost?
- Are there several solutions to the problem in your area?
- Is it expensive?
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@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
Very well organized! Is it in your Village? In fact everything looks really green there... I've heard about a biologic reaction that permits to heat the house from rests once!
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It's right below my village in Latecaldo. yes composting creates a lot of hit which could be used for other purposes such as heating a home. Interesting stuff!
That's a nice solution @kus-knee; we do have a fairly large yard that generates a lot of waste and clippings. We particularly have an issue with blackberry vines.
Our local garbage and recycling center has a "yard waste* area where you can bring in a complete pick-up truck load for US$ 5.00 to dump off your waste. They then run their industrial scale chipper over it and turn it into mulch, which you can then come and pick up, starting in the last autumn, for $10 per load, but you have to hand shovel it yourself. I think they do that to keep people from picking up "wholesale" volumes.
Bright Blessings!
Glad to know that you have options.
@ kus-knee hello dear friend.
Here in our province we have a daily service of collection of these waste and the cost including the invoices of services.
What they do in your country is very good. Thank you very much for letting us know
I wish you a great day
Thanks for letting us know how things are done where you live.
Burning leaves in the fall is still very common in my Czech homeland but the number of (mostly DIY) compost bins has been constantly growing in Czech gardens.
Very good to know!
in 1987 a group of 20 men and women put together 20 000 Mark and a special company built a place for composting PfC with 1000square-meter to place the plant materials from gardens. The place was close to a village with 11 000 inhabitants.
We had a tractor plus 4 agricultural trailers and transported the plant material from the recycling station (separate collection of unwanted materials) to our PfC. We had to follow all laws and negotiate with the mayor and the rural district office. Baugenehmigung, abfallrechtliche Genehmigung, Planfeststellungsverfahren - no english words .
Twice a year a big shredder 16t and a special wheel loader
ground the plant material. The pile was a triangular prism, 5m high, 11m broad and 25m long. For 1 week it was steaming. After3-4 month it was ready and the farmers put it on their fields. The PfC was ~near München.
What a great project!
Our big garden generates a lot of waste. We have a municipal collection every two weeks that takes a couple of bags from each house. There are also public tips where you can take stuff. It's annoying that the collection stops during the winter these days. We share the garden with our neighbour and he does like to burn things. I try to minimise that. We also have a few compost bins that swallow up some of the waste.
It seems that you use a variety of methods. I'm glad to have a place near my home.
By the time I trim our hedge, do some pruning and rake the leaves I must haul about 25 200 litre bags down there!
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Thanks friend!
I read about the Phyto-purification: excellent!
Thanks for sharing, mate!
incredible project my friend,a very useful work @kus-knee
Thanks!
thank welcome @kus-knee
Good
great solution for the environment to be friendly
True!
Imagine instead of billing you, you earn the local cryptocurrency and you recycling is put on the blockchain for all to see!
Very cool. Something along the lines of @cleanplanet.
I can take it across the street into the empty woods, or haul it to the trash pick up folks. They let you drop off as much as you want for free last time I was there.
Nice to have some options.
Yes! The funny thing is there are guys around that still burn leaves! It gets proper dense as well. I did a mild rant about it a few years back LOL
Once your eyes start burning you know they've gone too far!
Where i live, no body accuse you of burning though maybe because it is less civilised to where you lived.
I did not really have a garden again but i have a long time ago
In our area composting is done through decomposition of waste that has been separated from plastic waste, then put into a closed container and this process takes a long time to become fertilizer. And the cost is not too expensive, it only takes a long time to become compost.
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I have more of a problem of not having enough garden waste, but I think this is a great idea for those who have too much. Our local councils take all of that sort of waste for composting these days.
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Good to know!