Columbia County Purchases Commercial Composter
On April 21st, just in time for Earth Day, Columbia County CSC Committee members and other involved residents attended the Greenport Transfer Station’s kickoff event and demonstration of their newly purchased ECORICH Commercial Composter. This machine was purchased to expand the County’s already established Food Scraps Program. Now with this new technology, residents will be able to bring ALL food scraps (including meat, dairy and cooked food) to their local transfer station for processing.
This model of the ECORICH Composter takes 1000 lbs. of food waste per day and reduces it’s volume by 90%. It uses an aerobic composting process, meaning no methane is released into the atmosphere from the food it processes. We were given a demonstration of how the machine is loaded and were able to see the final product, which is a nutrient-rich soil amendment (not compost) that will be available to residents to pick up and use in their own gardens and landscape installations.
We’ve created our own Germantown Waste Guide that you can download for reference. For more information about Columbia County’s Food Scraps program, you can also visit the County Site.
