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Digested food = fertilizer

Started by nashuatelegraph · 8 months ago

One of the most interesting buildings in Nashua is the “egg” at the wastewater treatment facility - a 90-foot-tall spheroid (it looks more like an onion dome on a Russian Orthodox church than an egg, actually) full of tons of bacteria that partially digest the city&%2 ... Continue reading »

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  • DaveBrooks

    8 months ago

    I have composted my food at home for many years - but it's easy for me, as I have enough property that I can just dump it behind the barn, in holding pens I built out of old pallets, and let it rot over a couple of years until it turns to mulch. That's not an option if you have a small yard with a neighbor who can see/smell the pile.

    I started composting not out of "green-ness", but to keep food out of my trash can, because I carry them to the town dump each week and don't want my station wagon to smell like rotting food.
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  • Tschmidt

    8 months ago

    Curious my post on this topic seems to have disappeared.

    We have been composting for years - great way to turn waste into something valuable. Living in a rural area we have the luxury to do so. Nice to see business stepping in to do the same for more urban folks – pretty hard to compost in an apartment.
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  • DaveBrooks

    8 months ago

    Weirdness happened and your first comment disappeared - I was responding to it, above, in what now appears to be a non-sequitur-ish First Post.
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  • Wholesale Cigars

    7 months ago

    Oh wow - I'm not sure where i stand on this. I mean recycling is good - but yuck... Thanks for covering this, not many people are.
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