Large Animal Carcass Compost Training Opportunity
The Maine Compost Team offers an animal carcass management training based upon demand. The training will prepare participants for deployment in the event of a foreign animal disease (FAD) outbreak or natural disaster to assist with the disposal of carcasses utilizing the composting process. This is an experiential based program utilizing hands-on activities, problem solving scenarios and demonstrations that will prepare participants for actual field situations. Training Goals: To foster a community that is prepared to rapidly and expertly...
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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 their community or region than a privately operated composting facility may have. The Compost Team has assisted many municipal composting programs over the years and is able to share that...
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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 recipes, and field trips to active composting facilities, sometimes what is planned or tried works as well as hoped, and quality compost is not being created. Through the experience of the...
read more2023 Maine Compost School Sessions are Full!!!
We are pleased to announce that the Maine Compost School will be holding two sessions for 2023: June 5th-9th (June Session is full–Contact Sandy to be placed on Waiting List) October 2nd-6th (October Session is full–Contact Sandy to be placed on Waiting List) Contact: Sandy Moody, phone: 207-242-0877 or by email: sandy.j.moody@maine.gov to register The Maine Compost School is the nation’s longest continually running compost education program–2023 marks our 27th anniversary!...
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Troubleshooting, Facility Operators, Municipalities, Private Business & Non-Profits, Schools & Colleges, Special Projects,
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About Our School
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 to be qualified compost site operators. Participants receive classroom instruction, laboratory experience and hands-on project exercises in this setting. The classroom and laboratory hands-on activities include: Introduction to composting biology Review of basic composting methods Rules and regulations Feedstocks View compost equipment in action Siting Site...
read moreOvercoming Challenges Associated With Carcass Management
Mark A. King and Dennis Wilson, DVM, Bill Seekins, PhD, and Mark Hutchinson From: 3rd International Symposium on Management of Animal Carcasses, Tissues and Related Byproducts Connecting Research, Regulations and Response University of California at Davis July 21-23, 2009 Introduction What do you do if your state has a catastrophic event that results in large numbers of animal carcasses that need to be disposed of…quickly? That was one of the primary topics addressed at the 3rd International Symposium on Management of Animal Carcasses,...
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