The Production of Compost From Agricultural and Municipal Solid Waste

The project on which this paper is based is sponsored by Wrekin Council and the work is carried out at Harper Adams Agricultural College in the Crop and Environmental Research Centre and the Agricultural Engineering Department. The aim of the project catalogued in this paper is to reduce the pollution problems associated with the direct application of agricultural slurries to land and the disposal of municipal organic waste to land-fill. Composting has the potential for reducing the levels of methane gas and harmful leachates produced in the landfill process and for reducing nitrate pollution from agricultural land.