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AN ORGANICS RECYCLING COMPANY
Date: October 4, 2012
ORGANICS RECYCLING & RESOURCE RECOVERY
Our Approach
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Convert organic waste into a number of valuable resources to be reintroduced and reused by our society, in a truly closed loop system
ORGANICS RECYCLING & RESOURCE RECOVERY
Early Project Development
! Site
! Demand for organics processing services
! Demand for compost
! Demand for RCNG vehicle fuel
! Demand for local food production
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Key criteria for possible projects
ORGANICS RECYCLING & RESOURCE RECOVERY
Site Selection
! Path to Approval
! Community Relations
! Utilities Proximity
! Access and Traffic Patterns
! Extent of Modifications
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Elements of Site Selection
ORGANICS RECYCLING & RESOURCE RECOVERY
Turning Earth offers discount to
haulers
Haulers pass along savings to customers
Generators incented to
source-separate
Haulers deliver food
waste to facility
Target Feedstock Target Food Waste Generators
The Food Waste Supply Chain
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Haulers collect waste from customers and pay a
disposal fee (“tip fee”)
Turning Earth offers a tip fee discount and creates a win-
win supply chain relationship
• Source-separated
• Food and other organic waste (pre-consumer)
• Commercial and institutional generators
• Restaurants, clubs, resorts • Food packaging / processing plants • Food storage and transportation
• Schools / universities • Grocery stores
• Cafeterias (office buildings, hospitals, etc.)
• We offer a tip fee discount to haulers for source-separated food waste
• Haulers pass along a portion of discount to food waste generators as incentive for them to source-separate food waste
• We work with haulers to implement source-separation programs at food waste generator
A Win-Win Supply Chain Relationship
ORGANICS RECYCLING & RESOURCE RECOVERY
Controlled Environment Agriculture
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! CEA technology produces local food on a sustainable, year round basis
! Combined AD-CEA sites use internally generated energy sources as well as leveraging key bi-products from operations such as heat, steam and CO2 to create optimal conditions, maximizing efficiency and sustainability
! Other benefits of CEA include:
— Optimal growth conditions eliminate the need for chemical fertilizers and harmful pesticides
— Controlled nature of food production significantly
reduces water use and protects water quality
ORGANICS RECYCLING & RESOURCE RECOVERY
Compost Market Analysis
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Possible Compost Products ! Residential and commercial landscaping products
! Specialty soils (e.g., bio-engineered storm water
management media)
! Turf grass and golf course growing media
! Green roof growing media
! Sediment and erosion control media
! Industrial products (construction remediation, DOT, etc.)
! Constructed wetlands development media
! Environmental site remediation products
TURNING EARTH, LLC 1150 First Avenue, Suite 501 King of Prussia, PA 19406 Telephone. 845 259 8400 Facsimile. 845 622 3649 info@ turningearthllc.com www.turningearthllc.com
AN ORGANICS RECYCLING COMPANY