If it is a problem, the composting unit will give off odours.

Environmental nuisances must also be prevented in installing the neighbourhood composting unit.

They make full use of the city's kerbside scheme and have an effective worm composting unit.

A small on-site composting unit keeps the soil healthy.

However, only about 200,000 tonnes is currently composted in home composting units or worm farms.

In some instances, extra height is needed to allow the toilet to gravity feed to the composting unit.

However, it applies only to industrial composting units and does not set out a standard for home composting.

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The composting unit consists of four main parts:

Food waste fed to a composting unit must be free of contaminates like heavy metals and non-compostable materials.

However, the consultants did note that biosecurity would be an important consideration especially if the composting unit is located near a livestock production facility.

A composting toilet consists of two elements: a place to sit or squat and a collection/composting unit.

You might also consider buying a polyethylene composting unit that keeps the ingredients together in a neat, unobtrusive container.

Enclosed vertical composting units would be used which "allows for maximum control of the process and ensures odour emissions are minimal".

Building and trialling a continuous in-vessel composting unit which is capable of accepting most organic wastes.

These units have a 100mm vent stack which exits from the top of the composting unit, and acts like a chimney on a wood stove.

Home composting can be started by simply using a plastic bag, building a wooden container, or by purchasing a composting unit.

Brick built composting unit.

Rocktec is the official manufacturer of VCU (vertical composting unit) equipment.

Organic wastes will be recycled in composting units, or in small-scale livestock breeding units.

Most bioplastics (e.g. PH) only biodegrade quickly in industrial composting units.

Building projects on-the-way (greenhouse, cellars, composting unit).

To operate a Vertical Composting Unit at Twizel, to process organic materials into compost.

It is a rotary composting unit that incorporates a 1.5m3 composter that is either manually or electrically driven.

Brief description: An in-house developed in-vessel horizontal composting unit (HCU).