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Bainbridge Island, WA: Green Mountain Technologies is excited to announce that US Patent number 10414696 has been issued for both radial and circular composting systems. The primary benefit of the...

Last week I was in North Idaho winterizing soil piles from a foundation excavation for a new house I am building near Coeur d’Alene. It took 4 hours to cover...

Proper equipment selection is crucial to developing a successful composting operation. But don’t go about it blindly. Know what you need and how to get it.  Getting Started  The number...

The first and last concern everyone has about composting is the smell. Compost odors that offend (malodors) can make life very difficult, and coexistence with neighbors sometimes impossible. In other...

Each year, US colleges throw away an estimated 22 million pounds of food. That’s millions of pounds of useful resources being thrown in the trash, and millions of dollars spent...

Saying Goodbye to the Earth Tub After over 20 years of bringing composting to local communities around the globe, we are sad to announce the discontinuation of the Earth Tub....

In the US, windrow systems are the most popular form of industrial composting. And it’s no secret why. Windrows have relatively low start-up cost. In fact, for small to moderate...

At Green Mountain Technologies, we love composting and we’re always looking for ways to practice what we preach. So we are excited to be installing a composting toilet at our...

Why Compost Coffee Grounds? What is the impact of composting coffee grounds? When building a composting recipe, do coffee grounds count as food scraps or bulking agent?  These are questions...

Staff from the National Park and Delaware North dining and management with their new Earth Flow. This is from the initial installation of the system in October of 2017.   “I’m...