Organic Fertilizer - Converted Organics, Inc.

• Safe for People, Pets and Environment
• Great Results
  • Thicker, greener, healthier, more vibrant lawns
  • Flowers and plants will produce more bloom and foliage
  • Enhanced flavor and yield of fruits and vegetables
  • Enriches soil and increases microbial activity
  • Restores nutrients and improves soil quality
• Environmentally Friendly
• Cost Effective in Terms of Dollars and Time
• Lawns Require Less Watering
• Lawn Green Up Lasts 8 - 10 Weeks

Food waste is a fact of life, but the environmental burdens it creates don’t have to be. Fruits and vegetables travel across the country – even the world – and must be unpacked, sorted, selected and repackaged before they find their way into markets and onto our plates. Currently, this process creates waste – an incredible amount of waste, particularly in large cities such as New York, which generates more than 3,600 tons of food waste each day. Food waste is what makes trash smell and is what fills garbage trucks that belch noxious fumes into the air.

Converted Organics has found a way to eliminate nearly all of these impacts and, instead, to use food waste to provide environmental benefits for local communities, as well as the larger global community. Converted Organics uses proven technologies to turn food waste into a valuable, organic biostimulant (a natural fertilizer) that helps farmers grow healthier food and improves environmental quality.

Turning Waste Into Food

Environmentally Superior Food Waste Management: Food waste comprises over 11% of the nation’s waste stream. Recycling food waste should be simple, since organic materials grow and decompose readily in nature. However, high concentrations of food wastes and lack of available land near most urban areas pose a challenge. Composting is a common alternative, but is slow, requires a great deal of space, often generates offensive odors, attracts vermin, and usually creates an inconsistent product with little economic value. Converted Organics presents a practical solution for recycling food waste that is quick, clean, and efficient.

Diverting Waste from Landfills: Landfill capacity is a significant concern, particularly in densely populated areas. The environmental impacts of landfills include liquid wastes migrating into groundwater, landfill gas, consumption of open space, and air pollution associated with trucking waste to more remote landfills. Converted Organics diverts a considerable amount of waste from landfills and turns it into a valuable biostimulant.

Diverting Waste from Incinerators: Incinerators produce toxic air pollutants and climate-changing gases, as well as ash containing heavy metals. Incineration is an inferior solution for treating organic wastes, and fails to recover the useful materials from organic wastes that can be used to grow new food. Converted Organics does recover the value from food waste and puts it back into the natural growing cycle.

Environmentally Benign Process

No Emissions, Dust, Odors, Noise: The Converted Organics process uses heat and bacteria to transform waste into a biostimulant with unique nutritive and disease suppression characteristics. The process occurs in enclosed “digestors” that will be housed within a building and use the best emissions control equipment available. Almost none of the dust, odor, and noise associated with composting and transfer stations will occur.

Reduced Truck Traffic: Converted Organics will pre-process food waste before delivering it to the facility, which will reduce the need for truck traffic by 50 – 80% compared to a transfer station or a composting facility. Converted Organics also plans to use alternatively fueled vehicles, rail, and water transportation as much as possible to further lower truck traffic associated with a given facility.

Reduce Need for Future Transfer Stations: By turning food waste into a valuable product, Converted Organics reduces the total amount of garbage that goes to landfills. The Converted Organics facility helps diminish the need for building or expanding garbage transfer stations in the community.

Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Converting food waste into biostimulants slows the release of climate-altering greenhouse gases by diverting organic materials from landfills and incinerators, which release methane and carbon dioxide.

Enabling Healthy Farming

Environmentally Friendly Alternative to Chemical Fertilizers: Overuse of chemical fertilizers in modern agriculture contributes to several environmental problems. Chemical fertilizers deplete the overall health of soil, which reduces a plant’s ability to absorb nutrients. Over time, more fertilizer is required to produce the same growth rates. As a result, large quantities of chemical fertilizer are not absorbed and run off into streams and rivers or leach into groundwater. Converted Organics biostimulants offer farmers an environmentally-friendly alternative to chemical fertilizers that prevents water pollution and increases soil health.

Reduces Need to Manufacture Chemical Fertilizers: Chemical fertilizers require energy to process, and mined materials are often added to supplement their performance. Substituting even a small percentage of the chemical fertilizers with the Converted Organics biostimulant greatly reduces the total amount needed, producing healthier plants and improved yields.

Healthier Crops, Fewer Harmful Pesticides: Chemical pesticides can be harmful to workers who apply them to crops and people who eat food grown with pesticides. Converted Organics biostimulants grow healthier plants that do not need a lot of chemical pesticides to protect them from diseases. Healthier plants mean healthier food.

Commitment to Environmental Stewardship

Alternative Transportation: Converted Organics will transport its materials and products with trucks that use alternative fuels to reduce air emissions. Rail and barge transportation will also be used to the greatest extent possible.