Grant given to Little Rock Zoo helps improve animal manure compost process

Lindsey Clark – todaysthv.com

Every day at the Zoo, over 48 cubic feet of animal manure is composted. Thanks to a Regional Recycling and Waste Reduction District grant, that composting process has improved.

On Thursday, Zoo staffers will demonstrate the new composting machine that was purchased with the $13,000 recycling grant.

This unique piece of equipment was only the second one made of its kind. In year’s past, this element of the Zoo’s composting process consisted of a simple screen that was manually shaken by Zoo employees.

This former practice will also be demonstrated to show the vast improvement that the new equipment is making in the Zoo’s aspiration to work in a sustainable fashion on a daily basis.

In the Zoo’s effort to promote conservation, they compost elephant and rhinoceros manure, along with weeds, leaves and grass clipping, to produce high quality compost that is used throughout the Zoo landscape.

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