From Terrie’s Take #379:
Toyota has teamed up with contact lens maker Menicon to produce a compound which can significantly speed up the decomposition of cow pats (poop) for compost. The new
compound is added to cow slush and reduces the mess into usable compost in 45 days, about half the current time. As a side benefit, it also reduces the methane and thus the
smell emitted by an active bio-pile. The compound is called “resQ45″ and is targeted at the nation’s dairy, beef, poultry, and pig farmers, who have to dispose of about 89m
tonnes [Ed: you didn't know it was that much, did you?] of manure every year. ***Ed: This could be a hit in Europe and Australasia as well. (Source: TT commentary from
reuters.com, Jun 16, 2006)
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=T343500
