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The composting handbook : a how-to and why manual for farm, municipal, institutional and commercial composters / editor, Robert Rynk [and six others].

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London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2022]

Compost -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

9780323856027 (paperback)

0323856020 (paperback)

xxx, 974 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

1. Why compost? -- 2. Enterprise planning -- 3. The composting process -- 4. Compost feedstocks -- 5. Passively aerated composting methods, including turned windrows -- 6. Forced aeration composting, aerated static pile, and similar methods -- 7. Contained and in-vessel composting methods and methods summary -- 8. Composting animal mortalities -- 9. Composting operations and equipment -- 10. Site planning, development, and environmental protection -- 11. Process management -- 12. Odor management and community relations -- 13. Safety and health principles and practices for composting facilities -- 14. Facility management -- 15. Compost characteristics and quality -- 16. Compost use -- 17. Compost use for plant disease suppression -- 18. Compost marketing and sales -- 19. Composting economics.

"The Composting Handbook provides a single guide to the science, principles and best practices of composting for large-scale composting operations facing a variety of opportunities and challenges converting raw organic materials into a useful and marketable product. Composting is a well-established and increasingly important method to recycle and add value to organic by-products. Many, if not most, of the materials composting treats are discarded materials that would otherwise place a burden on communities, industries, farms and the environment. Composting converts these materials into a valuable material, compost, that regenerates soils improving soils for plant growth and environmental conservation. The Composting Handbook expands on previously available resources by incorporating new information, new subjects and new practices, drawing its content from current scientific principles, research, engineering and industry experience. In both depth and breadth, it covers the knowledge that a compost producer needs to succeed. Topics include the composting process, methods of composting, equipment, site requirements, environmental issues and impacts, business knowledge, safety, and the qualities, uses and markets for the compost products. The Composting Handbook is an invaluable reference for composting facility managers and operators, prospective managers and operators, regulators, policy makers, environmental advocates, educators, waste generators and managers and generally people interested in composting as a business or a solution. It is also appropriate as a textbook for college courses and a supplemental text for training courses about composting or organic waste management."-- Publisher.

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