New Milford
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Established in 1990, the New Milford Farms (NMF) composting facility serves as a low-cost means of disposal for various industrial residues from Nestle USA, a large international food company. The NMF facility takes in organic feedstocks ranging from spent coffee grounds and industrial wastewater sludge to leaves and brush from nearby residents, and combines them to create fertilizing compost useful for farms and gardens. Located in New Milford, Connecticut, the facility receives significant inputs from as far away as Fulton, New York and Freehold, New Jersey. The NMF business of industrial composting is growing within the larger framework of an emerging movement toward large-scale composting. A closer look at NMF reveals an array of the challenges, benefits, and potential areas for improvement in industrial composting. Environmental policy, markets for soil amendments, and the science of composting all form a critical backdrop for this rural Connecticut enterprise and hundreds like it in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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