What are Wood Chips?
Wood chips are small pieces of wood which have been created by running wood through a shredder, breaking it into uniformly sized chips. There are a number of uses for wood chips, and there are often several ways to obtain wood chips, depending on where one lives and for what purpose one wants to use the wood chips. People who harvest timber, trim trees, and process fallen or dead trees on their own land usually also end up with wood chips as part of the process. The precise size of wood chips varies, depending on the type of wood and the wood chipper used to create the chips. As a general rule, wood chips are created as a byproduct of timber processing, with small branches, offcuttings, and other debris being run through a wood chipper to make wood chips as a way of compacting tree waste. Wood chips can also be made from larger pieces of wood, assuming that those pieces of wood have no other uses. One common use for wood chips is as a ground cover. A thick layer of wood chips will keep
Cellulose. What is cardboard made from? Cellulose fiber, flour and water. What allows the folks up North to have success in getting the worms to feed and breed? Carbon/Nitrogen ratio of the added cellulose material to the high nitrogen sludge. I think shredded cardboard will be a fine addition. Guess what I have? Sitting in the back forty at the old WW facility is a huge piece of black plastic drain tile about 10ft long and 4′ diameter I think, maybe 5′. I see a big compost tumbler in the works! EPA has standard methods acceptable for thermophilic (heat) composting of human wastes. It won’t be that much more trouble to compost the sludge mixed with cardboard in a big tumbler prior to placing in the worm bins for our amount of sludge. One day in the sun in the summer will reach the desired temperature and duration, winter may be different and more reliant on bacterial heating than solar but we’ll see. Lots of work and experimenting to do! 4/15/09 Received a comment from one of my Northe
