Manufacture of Artificial Soil by Composting Coal Fly Ash and Bottom Ash with Poultry Litter

This paper describes the progress of studies of the treatment of coal ash mixed with organic by-products by a compost process as a means of converting ash to a desirable commercial product. Mixtures of fly and bottom ash, broiler chicken litter manure, sawdust and pine bark were successfully composted during the winter of 1994. The recipes and compost procedures for production of the manufactured soils are described. The physical, biological and chemical properties of the manufactured soils are being studied and initial results are presented.