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Open-source community-scale rotating drum composter for 250 person community.

 
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Just wanted to share a video I made of an awesome composter.

https://youtu.be/y06Uk5RVBzU

This composter was sized to process about 35,000 pounds of unsorted food waste per year. This is roughly the amount of waste that a community of 250 generates through the course of a year.

This is a free open-source design that is available to everyone. The Compost for Good team designed and built a commercial-scale, rotating drum composter, capable of processing all of the unsorted food waste. This composter was built for approximately $15,000 in material cost. Similar-sized composters purchased on the open market range anywhere from $40,000 to $150,000. Compost for Good provides designs so that others may build their own composter, save money, keep food waste out of landfills, and generate a valuable product for use or sale.

Plans and operating manuals are available here:
https://www.adkaction.org/project/compost-for-good/
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