Sustainable soil, water and air quality mankind`s ultimate challenge and opportunity in the 21st Century
The House Agricultural Appropriations Sub-Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Joe Skeen and Minority Leader Marcy Kaptur, has appropriated $600,000 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide demonstration funds to the Rodale Institute, the Compost Council, and N-Viro International Corporation. The demonstration project is showing the ability of compost and N-Viro Soil{trademark} technologies to utilize manure and bio-solids in such a manner as to provide both sustainable soil fertility and reduced non-point source water pollution. The two processes, i.e. compost and N-Viro Soil{trademark}, stabilize and immobilize nutrients and organics so that they are only available through the {open_quotes}slow release{close_quotes} mechanism of mineralization. Moreover, they help reduce the leaching of chemical fertilizers, thus increasing their efficiency and they reduce the need for chemical pesticides. Compost is an established biological technology. N-Viro Soil{trademark} is a new process with an established reference base and significant public recognition, that combines biological, chemical, and physical processes to pasturize organic wastes, and convert to a stable, storable product that is capable of providing {open_quotes}slow release{close_quotes} soil fertility through immobilization and mineralization. A sustainable national program of technology transfer is absolutely vital if such technologies are going to be understood, accepted, and utilized.
- OSTI ID:
- 459103
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961197-; TRN: 97:001267-0023
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 12. fluidized bed conference, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 11-13 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Twelfth annual fluidized bed conference; PB: 344 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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