Potsdam/St. Lawrence County Recycling Demonstration Project. ResearchingWastepaper Use for Animal Bedding

摘要

This report describes the demonstration of a municipal recycling program and theresults of the use of collected mixed paper as animal bedding. The project included demonstration of several collection methods applicable for rural communities, including a curbside collection program in the Village of Potsdam and drop-off collection in some surrounding areas. The collected materials were upgraded at a private materials-processing facility. Some mixed paper was shredded to produce three types of wastepaper animal bedding. The project also examined biodegradation of used bedding and manure and the mobility of metals found in paper of manure. In the laboratory test program, mixture of manure and wastepaper beddings decomposed more slowly than hay bedding mixtures. However in field tests at the cooperator farm, wastepaper beddings degraded quickly enough to effectively disappear soon after landspreading.