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The Compost Squad

​The Compost Squad is a student-run team that collects food and green waste on campus and turns it into a rich soil supplement. Diverting 500lbs per week, the student team is busy with year-round collections and production.

Compost Facts

 September 29, 2020

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  • Most efficient composting occurs with a carbon to nitrogen ratio of 30 to 1
  • When food rots in a landfill, it produces methane, a gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.
  • More than 20% of all methane emissions: human-related
  • Humboldt State's Earth Tub is designed specifically for on-site composting of food-waste. 
  • The Earth Tub is a fully enclosed composting vessel featuring power mixing, compost aeration, and biofiltration of all process air.
  • The ET is capable of processing as little as 40lbs per day or as much as 100lbs per day
  • Vermicomposting: composting with worms in an enclosed, convenient, low maintainence worm bin.
  •  Approximately 3,000 pounds of food waste was diverted from landfills and incinerators in the year of 2019!

What do we do?

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

​The Compost Team provides 5-gallon buckets at various locations around campus so they can store away their organic waste instead of throwing it away in the landfill. This 2020 Fall school year the Radburro E-Bike will be incorporated, as the mode of transportation for bucket collections. Once a week, the Compost Operators, collect the buckets to empty out the food waste into our campus-wide 3 cubic yard EARTH TUB! ​

ABOUT Us

Hello, welcome to the Compost Blog. The blog is provided by students right here in Humboldt State University. The team of students in charge of the blog are Jymanii Williams, Krissi Fiebig and Jerry Swider.

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