The report Evaluation of Size Reduction Technologies for On-site Organics Management Systems is now available. This report provides an evaluation of size reduction technologies currently available to enable more effective on-site compostable organics processing. It is targeted towards commercial and industrial sector enterprises, multi-unit dwellings and government institutions and organisations, as these sectors display significant potential to utilise such technology to improve their organics management practices.

On-site processing technologies, such as composting and vermiculture, can convert a wide range of organics (after size reduction) into recycled organics products including composts, mulches and vermicast. Limiting the development of this industry is the lack of information relating to efficient and effective size reduction technologies, which are required to reduce the particle size of organic materials so they can be efficiently processed in on-site.

The scope of this report is to provide an evaluation of on-site size reduction technologies for a range of compostable organics raw materials. To address this need, this study was performed to address the following objectives:
• Evaluate and document the performance of a range of size reduction technologies that are currently available and suitable for mid-scale on-site C&I sector use;
• Identify the compostable organic materials which can be effectively size reduced by each technology;
• Provide performance data with regard to the use of these technologies for the different organic materials trialled; and
• Identify significant occupational health and safety issues associated with the use of these technologies.

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