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com·post

(kŏm′pōst′)

A mixture of organic matter, as from leaves and manure, that has decayed or has been digested by organisms, used to improve soil structure and provide nutrients.

tr.v. com·post·ed, com·post·ing, com·posts

1. To convert (vegetable matter) to compost.

2. To fertilize with compost.

[Middle English composte, from Old French, mixture, compost, from Latin compositum, mixture, from neuter past participle of compōnere, to put together; see component.]

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composting

(ˈkɒmpɒstɪŋ)

the activity or practice of converting garden and kitchen waste to compost

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Translations

compostaggio

компостирование

composting

[ˈkɒmpɒstɪŋ] N → compostación f

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composting

[ˈkɒmpɒstɪŋ] n → compostage m

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The Autothermal Thermophilic Aerobic Digestion (ATAD) process has been around now for approximately fifty years, although it is still sometimes considered relatively new.

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The plant, with tertiary filtration and sludge treatment using aerobic digestion and thermal drying, will cater to the entire irrigation water requirements for all the 13 islands of Al Madina Al Shamaliya.

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* Clarifying regulations for composting and organics processing, including changes for stacking, setbacks and separation of the requirements for an aerobic digestion.

Proposed solid waste regulations would affect local landfills

Ruminants grazing on pastures or rangelands tend to produce low methane due to aerobic digestion of their excreted manure.

METHANE EMISSIONS AND VOLATILE FATTY ACID PRODUCTION FROM MANURE EXCRETED BY CATTLE FED DIETS CONTAINING LIPIDS

These companies would also be encouraged to adopt more progressive disposal technologies, such as an aerobic digestion of waste products and the use of bio-waste for energy recovery.

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Thus, in this study, struvite crystallization was conducted using thermophilic aerobic digestion sludge fluid of swine manure containing 17,125 mg/L of TCOD, 3,534 mg/L of total Kjeldahl nitrogen.

Struvite crystallization of anaerobic digestive fluid of swine manure containing highly concentrated nitrogen

Residents have complained about the "intolerable" smells produced by a composting plant, which already operates on the farm - but the developers say that the in-vessel composting plant (IVC) will no longer operate when the new aerobic digestion plant is up and running.

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Although a small amount of electricity is required to pump water through the island system, there's a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions: by encouraging aerobic digestion, the amount of methane produced is greatly reduced, Fulford says.

Clean and green

For example, PS100,680 of this was spent on the incinerator project in Splott, which is a shared project between Cardiff and four neighbouring authorities, and an aerobic digestion facility with the Vale of Glamorgan.

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The advantages of aerobic digestion have been known for many years.

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He next plans to build an aerobic digestion plant to treat maize and food waste.