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Commercial, Industry, Local and Regional Government FOGO waste is obtained, as graded and allowable product to be used in the process. This also allows regional supply to farms within the same districts, the whole state can be accommodated.
Trial project encompasses small percentage of strips of land on one property. This test property will be used to develop regulation. Future properties can be under contract and regulated through the contractual agreements.
The proposed property has hundreds of meters of solid saline acidic clay as an impregnable barrier, tens of thousands planted trees with full barriers of root systems that would absorb any flow of liquids. It is already one of the state’s premium carbon absorption and oxygen producing projects. When measuring results verses cost, it is in fact possibly the most cost-effective and efficient in line with natural practices. The property is or has partnered with Carbon Neutral, Men of Trees, Trillion Trees, State Government Vehicle Fleet environmental offsets, rural and agricultural businesses and development.
The trial property can use pit methods in highly salted areas of land, clay and soil. The liquid and solid organics help convert saline clay ground to more fauna friendly soil so roots can tap into otherwise highly saline water sources, that are now organic food source for vegetation. Surface ground conditions can be measured using existing farming methods of measuring soil conditions.
The alternative method will be trenching cultivation (seemingly the most preferred by farmers). This is more surface-based cultivation. Long trenches could be run through paddocks or around tree lines on edges of paddocks, or in saline land. They would typically be up to 4m wide, 2m deep and hundreds of meters long. They still need to be able to contain tipping loads but could be volumetrically smaller if required. The trenches are then covered with soil or clay, tilled and ripped to cultivate the dirt and the FOGO waste together. The FOGO is diluted and dried by the soil. The soil absorbs and consumes any leachates, absorbs and consumes solid carbons and gases. The fauna consumes the soil nutrients and liquids and turns it into food sources and oxygen.
Our process is aimed at greatly reduced emission control, no leachates of harm, only natural benefit, pits and trenches covered to prevent gas and odour, no solid contaminates, organics are broken down in processes, no visual or noise contamination due to areas of farmland and underground processes. Product is used up as a food source, not composted or sitting in landfill; or pollutive incineration and no intensive workload heavy recycling.
Tiger Worm seeding and farming will also benefit greatly from this process. We will purchase and distribute worms through the trenches and pits. They then eat and breed rapidly, further processing the organics into high-strength organic fertilisers. During trials, we will be breeding our own worms for distribution to future projects.
The proposed trial property has a massive highly concentrated ant population. Ants are very good for soil aeration and distributing nutrients through the soils. If there is only a little food source they can go for seeds from farm crops. Ants can also access these organics as a major food source and distribute goodness through the soil and not attack crops for lesser food.
Bees are also high on our agenda. The world’s bee population is being killed off by mites. The trial property is populated with mobile bee hives seasonally as plantation oil mallee trees flower; and some of Western Australia’s finest honey is produced on this property. We anticipate organic strip trenching beside tree rows will greatly accelerate tree strength and fertility and produce a greater flower mass.
One of our notable slogans is “From Worms to Bees”. Describing how the FOGO is processed and how it inevitably helps the environment. It goes into the ground, the worms flourish, processing it into goodness for the soil. The plants flourish from the goodness and the bees benefit from the goodness which ensures we have food and oxygen.
Healthier vegetation and trees absorb more solid, liquid and gaseous carbons and produce more oxygen. Our process is not just recycling organics and carbons, or capture and contain. It is full circular reuse as planned by Mother Nature. Our process is more about creating more nutrients, food and oxygen. What society sees as FOGO, organic farmers see food for the soil and fauna to reproduce food for society. It just must be managed and standards maintained to satisfy the needs of society.
We want all operations to be solar powered. Very little water or power is required. Panels, batteries and inverters could power everything required at each operation. Water and air supply systems and charging outlets. Lighting can be individual solar LED.
Operations can be fully monitored. Current farming practices are fully digitally integrated already. We have the technology required in use now. We are planning to set up regional drones, that with GPS tracking can fly to destinations, record deliveries to farms, measure and sample areas while there and fly onto next delivery or farm. We will have charging base stations located at farms, so drone can charge if required before travelling to next farm. This can be programmed automatically so that drone can have delivery schedules and surveying requirements planned and completed every day and virtually be working all day without human interaction. Drones can survey land and moisture content, temperatures, air samples, take pictures of processes, areas and measurements of vegetation differences. We can achieve instant and up to date digital reporting very efficiently.
We are aiming to manage everything digitally and electronically to have minimal workload and human involvement. Humans mean transporting of personnel and greater resources meaning greater pollution in the process. Stating processes mean greater employment is irrational in a society where productivity is dropping and our workforce is decreasing in size due to lower birth rates. We need to be planning on projects requiring fewer human hours otherwise they will not succeed due to lack of resource or will be far more costly.
Australia is renowned for having the best farmers in the world. The best at managing soil and ground conditions, best at managing fertilisers, artificial and organic and the best at producing results for farm, community and environment. Farmers are the original experts in managing FOGO for fertiliser and have been for tens of thousands of years. They have the existing resources and land to manage processes without needing massive investment. We are proposing a self-regulated controlled method that meets the requirements of DWER as well as agricultural and health requirements.
Transport will be bulk freighted to regional farmland. Trucks and loads can be GPS tracked. Each load can be individually identified, recorded and pictured; date time, location, everything downloaded automatically. 25m3 to 40m3 plus covered trailers. Our trial property is on road train route, meaning bigger loads and lower emission per volume moved. Requiring pictures and drone usage will ensure farm operations comply with procedure, otherwise footage will immediately detect non-compliance. Loads are to be delivered and managed by farmer as procedure requires, as part of minimal emissions process.
Farmers will be issued with contracts that state and control compliances. If non- compliances are detected, deliveries will stop and compliance will be enforced as per contract. Farmers will also be fully aware that DWER can monitor or inspect directly if they have cause to, or random visits. REDe Recycle is also continually monitoring for compliance as part of contract.
Farmers will be issued with education packs and trained in systems to manage process. Packages can be tailored to meet the farm specifics in terrain and local conditions. DWER can be part of the approval process, and REDe Recycle can provide full details of all controls and compliances to DWER. A full reporting system implemented with DWER as necessary.
We require DWER approval as it is FOGO recycling and FOGO waste obtained from reputable licensed businesses, and they need to ensure that process is approved by their regulators.
Our results and reporting will be provided to DWER as requested and on an ongoing basis. We anticipate soil improvements and will actively monitor, keeping an eye on worm numbers and concentration as a good indicator. We will also monitor differences in fauna and vegetation growth. Our plan of strip trenching beside rows of trees and not beside others will allow us to compare tree health, growth and flowering between the two; also surface grasses above and beside trenches. We can also monitor honey production as an extremely good environmental indicator. Healthier vegetation produces more flowers and pollen.
Emissions are fully controlled and contained within the soil. Apart from fauna processing, carbons are already ground fertiliser that microorganisms and plant life continually feed on for life. Our process only benefits nature further.
This process can be maintained for decades. The resources available in farms and farmland are far greater than our FOGO waste. This is also the most simple, low-cost system, that is more natural, organic and circular than any other process in Australia. It requires very little investment but set up and management and operations ongoing. Farms already have the proven knowledge, skills and resources to manage. Farmers are already the experts in the field of organics usage.
These processes would be very well accepted by the public. They can see the benefits for the environment, the support for farmers, very politically acceptable. They don’t want to see corporates expanding polluting operations. They want new natural ideas. We do not pollute to recycle; we are improvers and our end result is beneficial to everyone and everything.