Planta El Vallado, 1T/dia Fundación Carvajal

BIOTEC recommends the use of aerobic composting systems for the treatment of garbage that transform organic matter into marketable compost.

Garbage in Latin America is different from garbage collected in Europe or the United States. It has a higher organic matter content (on average 70%) and a lower recyclable material content. For this reason BIOTEC recommends that the way it is processed should also be different. Instead of wasting the organic matter, which is valuable for tropical soil, BIOTEC recommends the use of aerobic composting systems that transform the garbage into marketable compost.

While in Europe the organic content is composted after the non-biodegradable content has been removed, in Tropical countries, for reasons of cost, BIOTEC uses to compare this traditional system with composting garbage in the state it arrives in, followed by a screening process 3 months later to separate the fine, dry and mature compost that is suitable for marketing from the non-biodegradable components, part of which can be recovered for recycling.