Freestate Farms builds advanced composting facility

Freestate Farms builds advanced composting facility
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Sparta and Komptech teamed up to provide a cutting-edge, front-end processing system for Freestate Farms’ new composting facility in Prince William County, Virginia. The partnership’s goal is to divert 80,000 tons per year of yard and food waste from the landfill and turn it into a useable product.

The Sparta-Komptech system mechanizes the opening of the bags with the low-speed Komptech Terminator shredder. The shredder uniformly presents its liberated stream of compostables to manual sorters on the Sparta sort line with an overhead vacuum hood system. These sorters efficiently remove the plastic bags and other contaminants, readying this cleaned-up organics stream to go to Freestate Farms’ mass aeration beds and state-of-the-art composting process.

After 45 days and one additional screening step, the compost is “finished” and ready for beneficial reuse as a fertilizer/soil amendment product.

Visit Sparta Manufacturing’s website for more. 

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Source: Recycling Today
Freestate Farms builds advanced composting facility
<![CDATA[Sparta and Komptech teamed up to provide a cutting-edge, front-end processing system for Freestate Farms’ new composting facility in Prince William County, Virginia. The partnership’s goal is to divert 80,000 tons per year of yard and food waste from the landfill and turn it into a useable product. The Sparta-Komptech system mechanizes the opening of the bags with the low-speed Komptech Terminator shredder. The shredder uniformly presents its liberated stream of compostables to manual sorters on the Sparta sort line with an overhead vacuum hood system. These sorters efficiently remove the plastic bags and other contaminants, readying this cleaned-up organics stream to go to Freestate Farms’ mass aeration beds and state-of-the-art composting process. After 45 days and one additional screening step, the compost is “finished” and ready for beneficial reuse as a fertilizer/soil amendment product. Visit Sparta Manufacturing’s website for more. ]]>