Adam Brent - Cocoa-Corp Organic Recycling

We are joined today by Adam Brent who operates an Organic Recycling facility aka compost facility which accepts industrial, food waste and yard waste materials in Michigan. In this podcast we discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the compost segment of material management.

One impressive take away from today's interview for me was how American farmers need to amend the soil to make it stable. Adam explains how using compost as a soil amendment replaces the biotic glues in the organic mater which hold together the soil pores is missing in most farm operations.    

However, Our entire conversation was not this scientific and Adam talks though many layers of the composting segment of organic materials recovery.  

 

 Topics Include:

• Early Challenges of a Compost Facility
• Compost vs. Organic Waste Recycling
• Inbound Feed-stocks
• Why Cocoa accepts pre-consumer food waste but not post-consumer food waste
• Are compostable plastics also known as PLA’s are bag for composters
• Soil Composition - How America’s farmers have destroyed the soil and how compost can fix it
• What does it mean to have healthy, functioning and stable soil – See Video
• What are the largest challenges in the compost segment of materials management
• Adam’s selection of books, resources, trainings, and links to help you explore composting

 Books & Publications:

• The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Michael Pollan
• Soli Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry; Eldor Paul
• American Wasteland; Jonathon Bloom
• BioCycle Magazine
• Compost Science & Utilization Publication
• USDA – United States Dept. of Agriculture – Available Reports Table
• GAO – US Government Accountability Office – Report; “Food Waste: An opportunity to improve resource use”
• EPA - America's Food Waste Problem

Associations, Trade Shows & Trainings:

• Soil Science Society of America
• American Society of Agronomy
• US Composting Council
• SWANA – Solid Waste Association of North America  
• MRC – Michigan Recycling Coalition
• NRC – National Recycling Coalition
• MSU- Michigan State University
• MSU/DEQ Compost Training Slide Deck 2015

 

Contact Information:

Cocoa Corporation aka Cocoa Compost, Holland MI

Adam Brent – Founder & CEO

Email: abrent@cocoa-corp.com

Toll Free (855) 933-2020

Website: www.cocoa-corp.com

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