A huge, all-purpose grinder turns branches into chips during a
demon- station at a previous Composting Works! conference in Lindsborg. The sixth annual
conference will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week.
LINDSBORG - The sixth annual Recycling and Composting Works! Conference
- billed as the nation's largest demonstration of recycling, composting and wood
utilization equipment - will be held this week.
The conference runs Tuesday through Thursday on the campus of Bethany College
in Lindsborg.
The first day features workshops. One workshop deals with com- posting
training, advanced composting and wood utilization. Another workshop focuses on
recycling-operator training, advanced recycling, and business and industry recycling. Both
workshops have begin- ning and advanced tracks.
On Wednesday will be presentations, panel discussions and the nation's
largest demonstration of recycling, composting and wood-waste reutilization equipment,
said Wes Adell, conference coordinator.
Adell described wood utilization as "using wood that was a waste problem
and used to be dumped in landfill or burned."
A free public demonstration will be from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Lindsborg
Tree/Composting Station. Demonstrations will also be given at the Lindsborg Recycling
Center and in the east parking lot of the Bethany College campus.
This portable saw mill, which call turn logs into finished boards
and up to 300 styles of trim, will be featured during the demonstrations at the composting
and recycling conference in Lindsborg this week.
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demonstration will feature a portable saw mill, which can turn a log into finished boards
and up to 300 patterns of finished trim.
Another demonstration will show a metal-analysis instrument. The instrument
is helpful in sorting metals at recycling operations, Adell said.
Also new to the conference is the demonstration of a truck from the Wood
Recycling and Compost Center in Wichita. The truck takes mulch and blows it out of tubes
for landscaping.
Attendees will eat a Swedish smorgasbord with musical entertainment by
singer-songwriter Ann Zimmerman on that evening.
The conference continues Thursday morning with roundtable discussions and
panels dealing with recycling, composting and wood utilization. Two grant workshops will
be presented by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
This unidentified participant of previous Composting Works!
conference checks out some freshly made wood mulch.
Sessions
will be offered to help attendees review volunteer, public and private-sector resources to
run programs. Experts from across the nation will share information and techniques to
people working in recycling, composting and wood utilization.
A banquet and awards ceremony will close out the conference. Music will be
provided by eco-troubadour Stan Slaughter. Keynote speaker will be Will Ferretti,
executive director of the National Recycling Coalition.
"There continues to be a good healthy growth in composting and recycling
as we develop new knowledge and new technology," Adell said. "Also, we have a
new generation of schoolchildren who are learning more and more about the value and
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