Renewable Carbon Management LLC44 28th Avenue North , Saint Cloud, Minnesota, United States

Renewable Carbon Management, LLC (RCM) sells and licenses the NaturTech Containerized Composting System for converting organic materials into value-added commodities. We also offer strategic partnerships and operating expertise for the lowest cost and highest environmental performance available.

Our Mission:

Our mission is to provide the most affordable and highest quality compost and biofertilizer products by optimizing the best available and culturally appropriate bioconversion equipment to service public and private customers worldwide. We will carry out our mission of respectfully managing renewable carbon resources with honor and integrity for our employees, customers, the earth, and provide profitability for our shareholders. We will work in a manner governed by principals of environmental justice with the goal of providing local self-reliance independent of non-renewable fossil resources in order to provide tools of sustainability for communities through conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide into renewable feeds, fertilizers, fuels and fiber.

Renewable Carbon Patents
Awarded US and International

• #6,281,001 In-vessel Composting and Bioremediation, August 2001
• #6,524,848 Improvements in Composting System, September 2003
• #6,627,434 Biofertilizer Air recirculation Methodology, February 2003

Pending

• Stand Alone Containerized Biofiltration – Air and Water
• Dual Function Intermodal Bio-container – Filed April, 2007
• Stationary Composting Bunker Filed April, 2007

Our Management Team

Jim McNelly, Inventor and Founder

Jim has been a leading innovator and pioneer in the field of composting for over 35 years.  He founded the U.S. Composting Council in 1989, has served as a trustee and member of the USCC Board of Directors, participated on the USDA Sustainable Agriculture Quality of Life Task Force and Alliance for Environmental Stewardship.  He participated in the US Asian Environmental Partnership, and has provided his expertise and passion to many other local and regional environmental organizations and agencies.

Jim is the author of such publications as, States of Missouri and Michigan “Municipal and Residential Composting Guides”, Gale Research’s “Recycling Sourcebook”, and “Research Needs in the Vermistablization Field” for the National Science Foundation, “Finding a Home for Yard Waste” and the “Joy of Composting”.

Through Jim’s innovations, he designed the first U.S. composting operation collecting grass clippings and the first to use source separated organics for co-composting wastewater treatment biosolids, and developed the first commercial use of vermistabilization an organic solid waste management system.

Russ Johanson, Vice President of Engineering

With over 40 years of industrial, material handling, composting, and waste to energy facilities, Russ brings to RCM a wealth of expertise required for overseeing the design, installation and on-site coordination of NaturTech Sytems.

Russ has an extensive background working as chief engineer, designer and consultant for numerous material handling and industrial projects throughout the U.S.  He was responsible for overseeing the design, installation and management of public and private recycling, materials recovery, water treatment, biofilter, and composting projects.  These projects included such companies as Waste Management, Inc., 3M, Miller and Pabst Brewing, Blandin Paper, and numerous city and county municipalities.

The NaturTech Composting System

The NaturTech Composting System is an in-vessel, containerized composting process using modified 20 to 45 ton Intermodal containers for converting organic resources into valuable compost and soil conditioning products.  The system is recognized as a leading technology in North America for handling a variety of difficult-to-manage waste materials including food scraps and other organics from municipal, industrial and agriculture waste streams as well as biosolids from wastewater treatment plants.

The containerized in-vessel composting system is the state of the art application of forced aeration with temperature control, recognized in various studies and regulatory best management practices (BMPs) as the most advanced composting technology available as measured by the rate of volatile solids reduction and reduction of phytotoxicity effects.  Over 10 facilities have been established with NaturTech system for handling municipal, industrial, and agricultural waste materials in USA and Canada.

The system was recently certified by the U.S. Navy to illustrate the advantages of in-vessel composting and to serve as a demonstration project for the entire U.S. military.  A NaturTech system is currently under construction at the United States Department of Agriculture research station in Beltsville, Maryland processing cafeteria waste from the US Congress, USDA headquarters and the Smithsonian museum.  Its 5 digester system in New Mexico has been expanded to a sixteen digester system.  The US Navy facility at Whidbey Island, Washington has received Compost Facility of the Year awards from the Solid Waste Management Association of America (SWANA) and the US Composting Council.  The Whidbey Island composting operation has received over eighteen additional awards for excellence and performance.

1.  Four “F’s” of Sustainability

Renewable Carbon Management LLC is a service provider and project management enterprise that provides organic material resource recovery management programs, licenses to patented technologies, and project development services promoting sustainable communities by providing technologies for local production of the “Four F’s” of Sustainability: 

• Renewable Food
• Renewable Fertilizers
• Renewable Fiber
• Renewable Fuels

Sustainability starts with composting; keeping organics out of the landfills – managing agricultural residuals in a manner that eliminates pollution from fugitive methane, leachate and nitrates.Renewable Carbon Management LLC and the NaturTech Composting System working together providing the equipment and project management services for affordable organics recovery solutions that integrate sustainable agriculture, carbon sequestering, global warming mitigation, pollution prevention, desertification control, and soil restoration.

Sustainability Services We Offer:

• Sustainability assessment and education – help your community identify and reduce its dependence on non-renewable resources
• Source separation programs for all commercial and residentail organics, not just yard trimmings
• Wastewater treatment facility solids handling engineering and upgrades
• Composting facility design
• Permitting and public relations
• Equipment selection
• Site construction management
• Facility financing
• Facility operator training
• Facility management
• Regulatory compliance documentation
• Compost marketing and beneficial use programs
• Sustainable land use planning to maximize renewable resources and minimize greenhouse gas production

2.  Protecting the Environment

Some polls report that as many as 87% of Americans consider themselves to be “environmentalists”.  In the 1960s and 70’s, the repulsion experienced regarding polluted rivers and lakes from the sight of dead fish and closed beaches gave rise to the various clean water acts and the wholesale upgrading of our nation’s wastewater treatment infrastructure. Smog and air pollution anxieties have lead to increasingly stronger versions of the Clean Air Act.  When people see a direct cause and effect relationship between paying for environmental improvements and benefits, they will pay for the environmental value.  People do not complain about the cost of pollution control systems in their autos, nor do they object to their monthly sewer bills.  They see that these costs improve their quality of life.

After instituting recycling programs, bike lanes and banning yard trimmings from landfills during the 1990s decade of the environment, interest in the 21st century “Carbon Footprint” has us looking for new ways to become even more “eco friendly”.

Composting to the rescue!

Organics Management strategies deals with organic materials sent to the landfill, composting facilities, or land applied.  Organics Management programs involve virtually every level of local and state government.  New generations of bio-processing technologies go beyond simple composting programs in ways, which when properly implemented, can clean ground and surface waters, reduce smog, support local food production, enhance parks, beautify roads, reduce greenhouse gasses, promote renewable energy, reduce wastewater treatment expenditures, lower solid waste processing costs, stimulate bio-based industries and generally enhance the quality of life in a new generation of “low carbon footprint” community planning activities.