Community member pitches composting program using biosolids; staff discuss pilot and costs
Jennifer Perez proposed a municipal composting program that would divert 33–45% of organics from the landfill and use an average ~50 tons/week of biosolids as a moist feedstock; staff said start-up costs could be about $10,000–$15,000 and recommended a small pilot and educational outreach.
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Jennifer Perez, a community member and certified compost operator, presented an informational proposal advocating that the Taos Regional Landfill start a composting program to divert yard waste, food waste and biosolids from the active cell. Perez said the county’s organics stream could contain between 33% and 45% organics and that the wastewater plant currently provides an average of about 50 tons per week of biosolids at roughly 83.3% moisture, which she called a useful feedstock for composting.
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