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How would YOU like to become a key player in our creating a much more sustainable environment, and at the same time make money, and enjoy the process?

We are looking for a few key people to work with us, and also looking for assistance in funding new composting facilities.

Rich or poor, if we don't start taking massive action to clean up our environment.... life on this earth is going to be limited to much simpler forms, like bacteria, and maybe bees.  You and I, and our children and grandchildren, will be dead if we don't take massive action very soon.

We can compost our organic residuals, turning them into premium top soil instead of treating them as waste, sending them to incinerators to create Dioxin and toxic ash, or burying them in landfills to haunt future generations.  We can compost all the organics that go out the back doors of restaurants and supermarkets, and many others, also.

John Crockett, pictured above, has been working full time in composting since August, 1993.  He has Magic ^bio Soil under his fingernails, that is to say, a lot of first hand experience in composting.   He has been an innovator in the composting industry, including developing the first diesel powered compost aeration blower in the world, which has proven delightfully efficient and effective.  Most of the research presented in the www.magicsoil.com website is his own work.

Civilizations have risen and fallen based on soil quality.  Animal health, including humans, is dependant upon soil health... for healthy food. Petro-chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and genetically manipulated seed create more problems than they solve.  Our future health depends on sane soil stewardship.   Sane soil stewardship includes transforming our organic residuals into premium compost. 

This $303 million garbage incinerator, and others like it, even with sophisticated emissions scrubbers, puts out Dioxin, the deadliest compound known to man. Reportedly about 656,000 tons of "garbage" is incinerated in this facility each year; much of which can be composted.

If you haven't already read DYING FROM DIOXIN by Lois Marie Gibbs, we recommend that you do.  We also suggest you read OUR STOLEN FUTURE by Theo Coborn, et al; and LIVING DOWNSTREAM by Sandra Steingraber.

Basic military science says that an easy way to wipe out life is to poison the drinking water.  We didn't need enemy terrorist, we have created innumerable landfills with toxins seeping into our ground water.

Many people are wearing blinders, oblivious to these insane environmental abuses, the Short Term Thinking that is endangering our future.

Our Organic Residuals are a RESOURCE that shouldn't be treated as waste.  Over the past 50 years our soil quality has deteriorated because of reckless use of petro-chemical fertilizers and pesticides.  

Plant health is a natural byproduct of soil health. Soil health is dependant upon soil organic matter and a healthy soil food-web made up of a diverse array of soil microbes.  The microbes in healthy soil cycle nutrients and provide natural systemic resistance to plant diseases.   Plants under stress put out an odor that attracts insect pests.

We can create double wins where the environment and public come out winning, and so do the people who make it happen.

Rare are the businesses that get PAID to accept their raw materials, and then also get paid for the finished product... but composting can be one of the exceptions to the "norm".

Our Vision:

    Our Vision is to create a new state of the art composting facility within economically practical trucking distance of lower Westchester County, New York; to provide an economical alternative to sending food and other organic residuals to incinerators and out-of-state landfills.

A two acre active composting pad with forced aeration built into the concrete, under roof, can handle approximately 20,000 cubic yards on the pad at any one time.

Extensive site landscaping, including a par 3 golf hole, complete with tee, fairway, green, and sand traps, compost based, will enable us to demonstrate to golf course superintendents and other sports turf managers that compost is a viable alternative to the chemical warfare that they had been using.

   After the first facility is up and running, with the benefits of what we have learned, and having proven ourselves to be good neighbors, and a very sustainable business, we will go on to open up other composting facilities around the country.

Micro-Biology Lab:

   In most businesses a manager can easily count heads and see how many workers showed up and are being productive.  In composting our primary workers are microbes.  Bacteria range from 0.3 - 1.0 µm (micro-meters) in diameter.  It takes 25,000 bacteria, 'shoulder to shoulder' to span a single inch.  A commitment to Kaizen (constant improvement) dictated that we  have our own on site micro-biology lab to enable us to refine the composting process.  A teaspoonful of Magic Soil has been assayed and reported to contain 669 million bacteria.

IF Composting is so great, and can be so profitable, why is it not a lot more popular?

Very few people are aware of the opportunities. Equally important, very few people understand how to prevent the foul odors that have outraged neighbors, eventually resulting in facility closings. Foul odors are easy to prevent, for those who understand the cause and how to prevent the cause of the foul odors. Some of that information is available on our website, www.magicsoil.com.     Preventing foul odors in composting, and particularly when composting food residuals, requires a lot of expertise and commitment, more than is common in the world of composting.  Maintaining oxygen levels above 15%, and bio-filtering off-gases have been proven both possible, and effective in odor management.  Both technologies require properly designed forced aeration systems.

The Economics:

    The fees that we can charge on the front end are governed by the cost of the  alternatives for disposal.  In the eastern part of New York State, and in many other parts of the country, those alternative costs are over $55.00 per ton.  Since we want more source separation; NO plastics or glass; only organics that can be composted and transformed into premium soil and soil conditioners... by charging $45.00 per ton, the waste producers have an economic incentive to do the source separation and send their compostable wastes to us.

    Projections are that we can show a profit operating at 80% of capacity, just from the tipping fees / front end income, before counting income from the sale of the finished compost.  That includes completely paying off the projected $5.5 million cost of building the facility in less than five years. 

    Most of the equipment, Caterpillar wheel loaders, Shredding, screening and other equipment,  are expected to be acquired through three year, off balance sheet, leases. 

    When Dioxin emissions and PCB's result in people getting cancer, AIDS, and other diseases, Prevention is a wiser course of action... and this project is an opportunity for you to become part of Preventing the causes of dis-ease.  This is a chance for you to make a priceless contribution to creating a sustainable environment, and having a lot of fun in the process; as well as make significant return on your investment.

Note that less than 6% is for working capital.  The bulk of the funds are for the land, building, concrete composting pad, which is half of the floor of the building, and the Compost Aeration System, much of which is built into the concrete composting pad.  While the investment may seem large, it is tiny compared to the capacity of the facility in tons per year, and compared to the tipping fee revenues.   Without our in house design skills and experience in developing aeration, and our own research, IF we were relying on consultants and outside engineers, the cost could easily be two to three times greater, and the end result likely far less functional.    The compensation plan provides a low base salary to the project developer, and significant profit sharing.    Thus, there is major incentive for success, which also secures the investor's input.

   Standard practices in the waste industry is for tipping fees to be COD or working against a deposit... so there is negligible bad debts on the front end.

    One of the most difficult parts of the project is getting a site and local permitting.  We have earned the respect of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, so the DEC 360-5 permit is simply a matter of details, mostly paperwork.  We have also earned the respect of two towns, which have expressed interest in our locating within their town.  This is practically unheard of in the composting industry.  Then, what we are proposing is far more advanced than anything we've seen.  We are committed to being a really good neighbor.

    TEAM means Together Everybody Achieves More.  Are you ready to make a significant contribution to making this a better world for all of us, and enjoy the process, and make a nice return on your investment of energy and/or money?   If so, Contact John Crockett, a.k.a. Dr. Mike Robe (microbe) by e-mail, telephone or snail mail.  Let's make a difference, and enjoy the process.

John A. Crockett                                           
24 Sol Drive
Carmel, New York 10512-5039
(845) 225-7763