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Compost Operator on a break
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David Klein
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Trucking 1/2 year old compost from the commissary pad, to pad # 1 is site work done to make room for new incoming residential food scrap materials.
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Trucking 1/2 year old compost from the commissary pad, to pad # 1 is site work done to make room for new incoming residential food scrap materials.
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Trucking 1/2 year old compost from the commissary pad, to pad # 1 is site work done to make room for new incoming residential food scrap materials.
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IMG_9353
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IMG_9351
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Compost filtration sock-filled w 90% large gauge, 10% small gauge wood chip “overs” (materials left after sifting) in a polypropylene mesh tube. Sock is placed around a drain to prevent compost fines (silt) from going down the drain during rain events.
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Moving the sifter from one pad to another
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Moving materials to make way for the demo of buildings in brick village, and processing
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Moving materials to make way for the demo of buildings in brick village, and processing
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We rented a dump truck for site prep necessary before we start accepting GrowNYC food scraps.
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Windrow building has restarted after the lull based on CiVID-19 related defunding. Inputs are primarily from zero waste island vendors, the Catholic Worker’s Soup kitchen and GI landscaping weeds - primarily mugwort
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Windrow building has restarted after the lull based on CiVID-19 related defunding. Inputs are primarily from zero waste island vendors, the Catholic Worker’s Soup kitchen and GI landscaping weeds - primarily mugwort
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Windrow building has restarted after the lull based on CiVID-19 related defunding. Inputs are primarily from zero waste island vendors, the Catholic Worker’s Soup kitchen and GI landscaping weeds - primarily mugwort
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Sifter screen -production line “table”. The finished compost in placed on one end of the sifter, and pushed down the line of 6 bins underneath - separating the compost from the “overs” (larger material that did not break down in the compost process).
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NYSERDA auditor - Jon Buyl - surveys Earth Matter’s energy consumption.
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Soil compost blend created for Chinatown Partnership street planters
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Bagged compost available!
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Irrigation fittings
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DSNY compost bagging machine will produce easy to take quantities of compost.
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DSNY compost bagging machine will produce easy to take quantities of compost.
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Sifting
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Charlie sifting compost.
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Compost Tex cover to keep too much rain/ moisture out
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Forking compost
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Foggy day on May 1.
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Charlie holds down the Center’s with essential tasks during this COVID-19 time like animal care and compost pile maintenance.
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Charlie moistens the latest and biggest ASP pile ever assembled to date.
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compost sock
