EPTC - Market Info

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Primary Markets

Animal Wastes

Dairy cattle, beef cattle, hogs and other large-scale animal operations, many classified as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), produce more waste than surrounding land and crops can absorb. Floodwaters, rain and leachates cause excessive amounts of nutrients and toxic contaminants to flow into surface waters and ultimately affect the ground water that we drink. Waterborne pathogens such as e-coliform and salmonella are dangerous to humans. High concentrations of nitrate and phosphate salts are dangerous to humans and farm animals alike.

Food Wastes

Residual food wastes from food manufacturers, crop spoilage, groceries and supermarkets, restaurants, and institutional generators often go to landfill sites, accounting for around 30 percent of landfill material. These organic wastes cause nearly all of the problems associated with landfill sites such as pests, objectionable odors, and the need for dirt cover.

Other Organic Wastes

Green wastes such as grass clippings, leaves, shrubbery, and other green "yard" waste and crop residuals such as rice straw, nut hulls, olive pits, etc. can be ground and turned into mulch and similar products, or it can serve as a good carbon source for EPTC's composting system, resulting in quality soil amendments.

Secondary Markets

Designer Soil Products

Annually, more than two-billion tons of topsoil are lost to natural wind and water erosion. Many modern farm practices accelerate this process. There is an estimate that 1.3 billion tons of manure are "created" each year. If EPTC is even moderately successful, the conversion of toxic waste byproducts to non-toxic soil byproducts and compost on a large scale will offset lost topsoil and have a profound effect on American farming.

Biomass Energy

Methane as a renewable energy source has been around since manure. Collecting the gas and burning it efficiently in a well-designed cogeneration system makes EPTC's system self-sustaining, very cost-effective, and provides an additional surplus of fuel and/or energy.

Lagoon Remediation / Land Reclamation

The downsizing or even elimination of lagoons and large windrow pads through the use of efficient, contained, modular systems would allow the eventual reclamation of lands no longer needed for waste storage, processing and "buffer zones."