US expert sees link between composting and safe solid waste disposal

Solid Waste expert Rhonda Sherman

A US expert on compost production and solid waste disposal, who is here to work with local farmers on maximising the transformation of backyard waste into useful manure, has told Stabroek Business that understanding the value of backyard waste can contribute to the creation of more efficient and safe regimes for the disposal of solid waste.

There are cases in which as much as 70 per cent of solid waste is actually material that can be transformed into compost, Rhonda Sherman, a North Carolina State University Extension Specialist  in the Department of Biological