Benefits of the All Seasons Indoor Composter ™ and All Seasons Bokashi ™
By Robert Coughlin
Landfills throughout the world are being filled by food waste at an alarming rate. In fact, food waste now represents the single largest component of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) sent to landfills. The United States alone produces over 34 million tons of food waste annually and less than 3% of that waste is recycled each year.
Mr. Coughlin will address the issue of decomposing food waste’s impact on the environment (green-house gases), and will offer a solution to this growing problem.
The presentation covers how composted food waste helps enrich the soil by encouraging the production of bacteria and fungi which in turn break down organic matter to create nutrient rich soil . Compost has been shown to suppress plant diseases and pests, reduce or eliminate the need for chemical fertilizers, and promote higher yields of agricultural crops. Composting also helps clean up contaminated soil by degrading and in some cases completely eliminating wood preservatives, pesticides, and both chlorinated and non-chlorinated hydrocarbons in contaminated soils. Finally, composting helps prevent pollution by reducing the formulation of methane leachate in the landfills.
A consumer-friendly solution to residential composting is SCD’s All Seasons Indoor Compost ™ and the All Season’s Bokashi. The All Seasons Indoor Composter™ Kit is a unique, in-house system used to recycle kitchen scraps into an organic compost soil conditioner. This system ferments and pickles food waste in less than half the time of conventional composting methods without odors.
Sustainable Community Development, LLC, d/b/a SCD Probiotics, is a life sciences company researching, developing and manufacturing natural probiotic products based on beneficial microbial technology. In business since 1998, SCD Probiotics is headquartered at 1627 Main St, Kansas City, Missouri (USA).
Presenter: Robert (Bob) Coughlin
Bob Coughlin is a Business Development Manager for SCD Probiotics and responsible for supporting and managing SCD’s growing licensee network. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
