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The Third R – Reuse

The Third R – Reuse Amy J. Sausen, Environmental Project Coordinator Meeting the Challenge for a Healthier Community Quality Compost Quality compost begins with quality partners – 2 nd Season Recycling and many local municipalities Produce WDNR approved S100 compost

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The Third R – Reuse

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  1. The Third R –Reuse Amy J. Sausen, Environmental Project Coordinator Meeting the Challenge for a Healthier Community

  2. Quality Compost • Quality compost begins with quality partners – 2nd Season Recycling and many local municipalities • Produce WDNR approved S100 compost • Produce to USCC standards • Large inputs = quality results

  3. 2nd Season Recycling • Currently recycling • Green waste (composting) • Wood waste (construction and demolition) • Asphalt Shingles • Road base, golf cart paths, pedestrian paths, bike paths, etc • Gypsum (drywall) • Agricultural soil amendment • Metal • Plastic • Cardboard and Paper

  4. Red B Select System • Compost Blanket Seeding • Blowing well cured mature landscape compost with seed onto suitably prepared soil • Innate characteristics of compost allow for • Increased germination rates • Decreased germination time • Improved stand establishment Red Select System

  5. Results From This… To This… To This… 60-70% faster than conventional seeding

  6. Sediment Control • Starts with “Soxx” technology. • HDPE woven soxx filled with a by-product of the composting process called “overs”. • Twice the flow rate of silt fence • Up to 96% Sediment Removal • No trenching • Entirely Bio-degradable products • Chemically active compost binds nutrients

  7. Failed

  8. Success!

  9. Sediment Control • A 12” diameter soxx is equivalent to a 36” tall silt fence • Except that it works better, doesn’t have catastrophic failure and is entirely bio-degradable.

  10. Living Walls What is a Living Wall? • Long (108’) polypropylene mesh tubes filled with engineered growing media • Extruded on site • 4 diameters can be intermixed for height • Near seamless lengths as long as you want • Can be seed injected, plugged, liner planted, and compost seeded or mortared • Any soil type and any terrain

  11. Living Walls

  12. Living Walls • A Green alternative to conventional slope stabilization • Reduce your carbon footprint using local materials. • Long-term stability created by plant material which also attracts wildlife • Walls can be near vertical.

  13. Rain Gardens • Rain garden – residential scale • Bio-infiltration device – commercial scale • Issues • Must have S100 compliant compost • Difficult to meet specifications with our native soils • Designed a completely engineered media to meet the WDNR guidelines for both content and performance

  14. Rain Gardens • WDNR defined soil media • 40% silica sand • 30% compost (S100 specs) • 30% topsoil (sandy loam) • Engineered media to meet these specifications for particle size, organic matter, and percolation rates as well as support plant growth • Red B Rain Garden Mix

  15. THANK YOU! Amy J. Sausen Environmental Initiatives Coordinator 608-836-7041 amy@bruceco.com

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