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Sandpoint project aims to compost local food and yard waste at SOAC with federal grant and tribal-gifted equipment
Summary
Resource Synergy and partners outlined a plan to site a small enclosed composting system at the Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center, funded by an EPA grant awarded under the Inflation Reduction Act and equipment gifted by the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho. City officials were asked to consider supplying woody biomass and other feedstocks; the first, fee
Resource Synergy told the Sandpoint City Council on June 4 that a pilot composting system will be sited at the Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center (SOAC) this fall to keep food and yard waste in Bonner County rather than hauling it roughly 70 miles to a Washington landfill.
Eric Maketzen, founder and president of Spokane-based Resource Synergy, told the council the first phase is fully funded and that the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho purchased the primary composting equipment and is gifting it to the University of Idaho for the project. “Away for the city of Sandpoint and for all Bonner County is 70 miles away,” Maketzen said. “Over a third of that trash is organic material, yard waste, and food waste.”
The plan calls for an enclosed, containerized composting unit placed inside one barn at the SOAC site, with cured compost moved to a secondary barn that has six bays for additional processing and curing. The system is designed to process food waste and a mix of carbon sources such as woody biomass, wood chips, sawdust or ground paper.…
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