Waste disposal has become a critical issue both on the farm and in the city. A growing population creates more waste. At the same time, the costs of disposal have increased, and places to put waste are disappearing.

The answer to the problem is to take leftovers and byproducts – sewage sludge, yard clippings, food and agricultural waste – and make them into a safe substance that can be added back to the soil to replenish it. This makes good economic and environmental sense. To make this happen in a cost-effective, efficient manner is the reason for the LSU AgCenter’s newly created W. A. Callegari Environmental Research and Training Center.

Services of the Callegari Center include:

• Complete laboratory research facilities for invessel, large-scale windrow composting, field and greenhouse trials and sample analysis.
  
• Organic byproduct recycling and beneficial use research.
  
• Solid waste management and training for municipalities, agriculture and industrial organic waste generators.
  

Associations

LSU Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

LSU Department of Agronomy

LSU AgCenter Research Stations

Baton Rouge Green

BREC

Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service