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What the Compost School offers: For people interested and/or involved with medium and large-scale composting operations. This course is a certificate program and trains personnel...
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We are pleased to announce that the Maine Compost School will be holding two sessions for 2026: June 22nd-26th and October 19th-23rd. Please Note: This is not the approved class to...
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Specialty Compost Training Opportunities
From time to time, we offer specialized training opportunities based upon demand. Past classes have included managing difficult feedstocks, advanced compost pile trouble-shooting, routine and catastrophic carcass management and developing tools to address odors both onsite and offsite. Please reach out to Mark @ mark.a.king@maine.gov if you have any ideas for...
Municipalities
Members of the Maine Compost Team are available to assist municipalities and regional public efforts in discussion from the ‘pre-planning’ phase of their possible composting program through the development of marketing options for the finished compost. Municipalities may have different issues of concern regarding the management of the organics available in...
Facility Operators
Members of the Maine Compost Team are available to assist facility operators from the ‘pre-planning’ phase of their composting operations through discussion of marketing options of the finished compost. While attending the week-long Maine Compost School will provide a compost facility operator with information on the biology of composting, development of...
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