Turned Aerated Pile (TAP)

Excellent Compost on a Small Footprint

Turned Aerated Pile (TAP) composting is the fastest way to make compost on a large scale. Advanced aeration combined with turner's optimized for composting (instead of loaders), allows operators to move material up to 10 times as quickly through the site. TAP composting optimizes oxygen, moisture and feedstock consistency resulting in a faster more efficient process.

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Higher Fines
Yield

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Quarter the Footprint
of Windrow

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Half the Operating Cost
of Windrow

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45+ Day
Process

How It Works

Place feedstocks into a pile or windrow next to the first aeration lateral.  Drive over your feedstocks with your TracTurn or side discharge turner and watch as up to 2,500 cubic yards per hour of material are mixed and homogenized. Repeat this process once a week for the next 6 weeks before placing that same row of finished compost into your screener.

Turned Aerated Pile (TAP)

As illustrated in the video, standard TAP piles are built in rectangles. This configuration simplifies construction, and allows for excellent spatial efficiency while also maintaining the other benefits of TAP composting.

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Circular Turned Aerated Pile (cTAP)

Circular Turned Aerated Pile, or cTAP, is a patented facility design that adds a twist to traditional TAP composting. Instead of placing your windrows in straight piles the cTAP is designed in a circular shape, taking advantage of the natural volume reduction of the material over time to maximize turner efficiency and reduce the distance of the finished compost to the screener.

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“Green Mountain Technologies offers simple, cost effective solutions that are practical to implement. They’re really there to work with you and make a solution that fits with your site and your process and your feedstocks. They bring a ton of experience to the table, and that balance of cost versus technology…really finding the sweet spot that worked for us and our site.”

- Pierce Lewis, Co-Founder of Dirthugger TAP Composting Facility, Dallesport WA

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