Domestic products

(putrescibles materials)

The putrescibles materials present a pretty interesting value potential. In weight, the organics materials represent about 35 % of town refuse and a little more than 30 % domestic waist.

In the environnemental negative impact, they are the most responsible in the burry waist problems (biogas et lixivia).

The most well known categories compost materials are :

  • table waste
  • green waste: - leafs - vegetables- garden and cuts waste
  • wooden residue: - sawdust- branches and threes - bark
  • mud : - paper industries - towns - septic hole
  • farming residues : -manure - truss of staw
  • agricultural waste

Facts:                                  

Many compost technologies are used in Quebec:

The open systems (batteries or windrows), static’s or turnover and les close systems (grain-storage - strainers).

In 1998, more than 174,481 metric tones waste material got in the compost recycling way, but this quantity doesn’t include mud (septic hole, paper industries - purifying companies ) because they are note define as solid waste in the house and city product. (53 % IC &I 47 %)