Composting Video

GREEN BIN COMPOSTING VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

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SHOWS A MAP OF DURHAM REGION, A PICTURE OF WASTE SET OUT AT CURB THEN OF A WINDROW TURNER MOVING THROUGH A COMPOSTING FACILITY.

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “WHERE DOES THE GREEN BIN MATERIAL GO?” READ ALOUD BY THE INTERVIEWER

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY.

“Green bin materials is collected at your homes and residences in Durham Region. We bring it to an in-vessel composting facility in Pickering and then we take that material from the Pickering facility, after we’ve mixed it with leaf and yard waste and composted it for about 25 days, we then bring it here to our outdoor windrow site in Clarington  where we compost it further and create a cured finished compost product.”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “WHAT MAKES DURHAM’S COMPOST GRADE A AND WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?” READ ALOUD BY THE INTERVIEWER

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY.

“It is grade A compost, we meet all the criteria and requirements for classifying it as grade A compost.”

SCRENE SHOWS GREEN BIN CURBSIDE AND KITCHEN CATCHER CONTAINERS

“The residents are doing a great job and Durham Region choose to collect the feedstocks that are high quality feedstocks and with that we can get the right conditions to have the bacteria and the microbes turn that feedstock into a grade A compost.”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “IS COMPOSTING A COMPLEX PROCESS?” READ ALOUD BY THE INTERVIEWER

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY.

“I don’t think it’s that complex. We’re really just taking what happens naturally in the environment and we’re making it improved by giving the bacteria and the microorganisms the optimum conditions. They do a lot of work, they work really hard and when they work hard they create a lot of thermal heat.”

SHOWS PILES OF PROCESSED COMPOST

“In that thermal heat and in the decomposition process we can sterilize the compost, we can kill the weed seeds and we can create a high quality black gold that you see behind us.”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE PHRASE “AN INSIGHT INTO THE COMPOSTING PROCESS?”

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY.

“Behind us we’ve got our windrow turner, which is a Scarab windrow turner, turning our windrows.”

SHOWS THE WINDROW TURNER MOVING ALONG THE WINDROW

“We do that periodically to turn the material inside out so that all of the material is exposed to the high temperatures inside the windrow which allows us to get pathogen kill and make sure the compost is a grade A compost. It also helps to kill the weed seeds, so any weed seeds that were in the plant material that’s come into the composting facility are killed through the composting process, through those high temperatures.”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “IS THE “WINDROW TURNER” EQUIPMENT OVERHEATING? (LOOKS LIKE SMOKE!)”

“What you see there is steam. The temperatures are so hot inside that windrow where the bacteria are breaking down the feedstock and the organic material people have put in their green bin, that when you turn it, it releases that heat and that steam.”

SHOWS CLOSE UP ON THE WINDROW TURNER AND THE STEAM BEING RELEASED FROM IT
“So what you see, that billowing, looks like smoke, it’s not smoke it’s actually steam being released.”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “HOW DO YOU ENSURE HARMFUL BACTERIA IS KILLED?” READ ALOUD BY THE INTERVIEWER

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY.

“The microbes when they are doing their decomposition work create a lot of thermal heat and that temperature, we measured shortly before this with a thermometer, can reach up to sixty-five degrees Celsius.”

SHOWS THE WINDOW TEMPERATURE BEING TAKEN AND THE READING ON THE THERMOMETER

“It’s that temperature that kills the pathogenic bacteria and also kills the weed seeds. In the summertime we can have smaller windrows because we don’t have such cold temperatures. In the wintertime we’ll build larger windrows so that we’ve got more heat there to hold up that temperature to get that pathogen kill.”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “DOES A WINDROW GENERATE IT’S OWN HEAT?” READ ALOUD BY THE INTERVIEWER

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY.

“It generates its own heat, absolutely. It’s not warm to the point of shorts but definitely snow would melt that falls on top of the windrows and the windrows stay hot all winter long”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “DOES SNOW HELP THE COMPOSTING PROCESS?” READ ALOUD BY THE INTERVIEWER

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY.

“It can help the process because we have to add moisture back into the windrows continually through the process so in the summer we’re putting lots of water back in. In the wintertime, like we had this past winter where there’s lots of snow, the slow melting of the snow will actually add to the moisture content and help the composting process.”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “WHERE IS THE COMPOST BEING USED?” READ ALOUD BY THE INTERVIEWER

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY. IMAGES OF GARDENS, GREEN BIN MATERIAL, PEOPLE

USING THEIR GREEN BINS AND PILES OF COMPOST ARE SHOWN WHILE MR. KOPANSKY REPLIES

“It’s used throughout Durham Region and the GTA. It’s used right it your backyard home vegetable gardens, your flower gardens. It’s used by landscapers, topsoil blenders. We’re using it for remediating parks and improving sports fields and turfgrass. It’s used throughout the GTA not only in landscaping, commercial and residential applications but also now in agricultural applications.”

BLACK SCRENE WITH THE QUESTION “IS FINISHED COMPOST AVALIBLE TO THE REGION TO BUY?” READ ALOUD BY THE INTERVIEWER

MIKE KOPANSKY, MILLER WASTE, ANSWERS THE QUESTION FROM THE MILLER WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY.

“Absolutely, absolutely, go to your local garden centres or your local topsoil blenders ask them if they are using Durham Region’s compost and Miller’s compost and you’ll find that a lot of them are using this product.”

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