Food waste has been recognised as an environmental hazard. With between 40 and 60% of food wasted, the CSIR estimates that the direct cost to the South African economy of food waste is over R10-billion per year.
Additionally food waste pollutes water sources, creates odour problems for neighbouring communities, provides a breeding ground for pathogens and also attracts rats and flies.
Founded in 2010, Earth Probiotic Recycling Solutions (PTY) LTD. focusses on solving the food waste problem through on-site food waste composting.
All Earth Probiotic solutions are developed and manufactured in South Africa.
Utilising indigenous beneficial bacteria and fungi mixes developed with the CSIR, Earth Probiotic’s solutions enable all food waste to be turned into a beneficial soil amendment. All cooked and uncooked food can be processed including meat, bones, dairy, and sea food.
These on-site composting solutions can scale from less than 100kg per month up to 45,000kg pr month.
Bokashi Composting utilises anaerobic bins where food waste, with the addition of microorganisms, is fermented. As food waste doesn’t rot during fermentation no malodours are emitted and the closed system ensures that rats and flies cannot enter the fermenting matrix.
These systems work extremely well at food waste volumes under 1,000kg per month. Fermented food waste can be trenched into garden beds, fed to composting earthworms or composted with landscape waste. Fermented food waste breaks down very quickly and adds valuable nutrients and biology to soil.
In addition to the bokashi composting systems, Earth Probiotic provides in-vessel composting machines (IVC). The Earth Cycler can compost up to 5,000kg of food waste per month.
This South African made machine is fully automated, logs inputs and outputs and continually monitors the temperature of the composting contents. The automatic composting cycle can be easily adjusted to fit with a site’s operating process.
The heron IVC can compost up to 45,000kg of food waste per month. These large aerobic composting machines incorporate a bin lifter, macerator and mixing auger. The heron IVC is fully automated and can be remotely managed through its data linked PLC.
Composting food waste on-site has significant benefits to any facility. On-site destruction ensures that potential food waste scavenging risks are eliminated. Moreover, direct management of putrescible waste eliminates the risk associated with rising waste costs and industrial action.
Other benefits including medium term waste savings, regulatory compliance especially relating to organic waste being banned from municipal landfills, carbon emission savings as well as a cleaner more hygienic waste area.
All systems provide a means to measure waste volumes which, given that you can only manage what you measure, enables waste minimization strategies to be put in place leading to further savings in terms of food cost reduction.
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