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Sustainable Vegetable, Compost and Bio-diesel System

Sustainable Vegetable, Compost and Bio-diesel System. Tim Reinbott Bradford Research Center Eric Cartwright Campus Dining Services. Campus Dining-A Survey. Each student through out 4.5 oz of food each meal 250 tons/year! 400 big round bales!. Tray-less Dining.

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Sustainable Vegetable, Compost and Bio-diesel System

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  1. Sustainable Vegetable, Compost and Bio-diesel System Tim Reinbott Bradford Research Center Eric Cartwright Campus Dining Services

  2. Campus Dining-A Survey • Each student through out 4.5 oz of food each meal • 250 tons/year! • 400 big round bales!

  3. Tray-less Dining

  4. What If We Could Make Compost Out Of the Food Waste?

  5. Campus Dining and Research

  6. Grand OpeningNovember 18, 2011

  7. Compost Facility

  8. Aerated Static Pile

  9. Aeration

  10. Time of Composting • Passive Composting (no turning) • Leaves-2 years • Infrequent Turning • Leaves-6 months to a year • Frequent Turning • Manure + leaves-1 to 4 months • Aerated Static Pile • Manure+leaves-5 weeks

  11. Food Waste+Animal Bedding

  12. Composting Operation-Food Waste

  13. Loading

  14. Mixing

  15. Not Just Food Waste!

  16. Future? Summer Welcome: 10,000 Andy’s Frozen Custard Cups Biodegradable Table Service South Farm-Beef and Hog Facilities Stephens Stables

  17. In the Process of Composting

  18. Finished Product

  19. A Lot Of Press Coverage: CAFNR, St. Louis Post Dispatch • Making Black Gold • MU students explore best practices for turning dining hall scraps into nutrient-rich compost. • March 9, 2012 Story: Mike Burden | burdenm@missouri.eduPhotos: Mike Burden • Mizzou aims to turn food waste into fertilizer • Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/mizzou-aims-to-turn-food-waste-into-fertilizer/article_36ed9f1c-fd3c-500e-b6a4-e1924e86fb75.html#ixzz1uMFbXJQO

  20. TV Also! Show-Me Ag - April 2012 "Composting“ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHklGg7v3no

  21. Schools on Tour

  22. MU Students Growing Vegetables to Take to Campus Dining

  23. First Produce of the Year

  24. New Story on the Students Involvement http://cafnrnews.com/2012/05/growing-skills/

  25. Let’s Make It Green! • Campus Dining Goes Through3,000 gallons of Waste Vegetable Oil Each Year!

  26. Make It Into Biodiesel! • 50 gallons every 48 hours • By product Glycerol which contains methanol • Challenge to remove the methanol, then the Glycerine can be • Composted • Burned • Animal feed • Made into soap

  27. Biodiesel

  28. Fillin’ Up

  29. Questions? Comments? http://aes.missouri.edu/bradford/

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