Carbon footprint, waste disposal, recycling and environmental responsibility. These words are all part of our modern vocabulary.

I'd like to show you a nice solution for gardeners and landscapers that have too much waste to compost themselves. 

Once when I visited Mexico the air was always thick with smoke as everyone was burning the garden waste! Where I live there is another solution available!

Where I live burning waste is not permitted so they have the solution seen below!

This video shows where I drop off the cuttings from our home

Composting Area of The Forestry Nursery

This is a Google translate from their website ( I was too lazy to do it!):

"The composting square in Lattecaldo located within the cantonal forest nursery is an innovative structure for the recycling of vegetable waste according to the laws on waste disposal.

The idea of using plant waste produced in the Muggio Valley and turning it into compost was born in 1985.

The nursery grounds impoverished by a long and intensive management required a continuous supply of organic matter.

Taking advantage of the introduction of the ban on the lighting of outdoor fires, it was decided to carry out the composting of vegetable waste in the Muggio Valley.

It was an innovative and far-sighted project.

This project would in fact have achieved the objective of recovering and enhancing a local vegetable raw material that would then be reused directly in the nursery for fertilizing the fields and for the production of potted seedlings.

As a direct consequence the use of natural fertilizers, chemicals and plant protection products would have been reduced.

Thanks to the upgrading works carried out between 2010 and 2011, the plant guarantees a control of the incoming material, an optimized composting process, the verification of the suitability of the outgoing product, and the on-site purification of rainwater and exercise.

The entire process complies with the current requirements regarding environmental protection.

Today the composting plant of the forest nursery is at the forefront in technical and management terms.

It also uses a phyto-purification system for waste substances that allows the accumulation of purified water in a special basin, thus avoiding the use of very precious reserves of spring-fed drinking water.

Currently the quantities of plant material delivered to the composting square are around 500 tons.

The compost produced meets the high quality requirements and is largely reserved for the needs of the Cantonal Agricultural Company of Mezzana, favoring an ideal synergy between the two state-owned companies.

In addition, however, there are many private gardeners and municipalities that take advantage of this product for local vegetable gardens, parks and parks."

What About You?

• What do you do with your garden waste if  there is too much for you to compost?
• Are there several solutions to the problem in your area?
• Is it expensive?

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Until next time,   

 
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)  

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