The Big Sandy Plant, Texas

The Big Sandy facility represents the oldest continuously operating composting system using the Bedminster Digester in the world. The history of this “first generation” composting plant utilizing the Bedminster Technology is remarkable, and chronicles its durability.

Operational: 1971
Amount MSW, tpd: 20
Amount Biosolids, tpd: 10
Number of Composting Drums: 1

Vital Earth today continues to operate the Original (updated with modern drive system and 2/3 of shell replaced) Eweson Digester. The compost processing concepts that we were taught by Eric Eweson are still proving successful today.

We receive a wide variety of feedstocks at our facility, including: biosolids, waste grain, grease trap waste, paper dust waste, cotton gin trash, chicken litter, hardwood sawdust, pine bark, hardwood bark, Canadian peat moss, perlite, and our own mined sand.