DENVER — In North Denver, shipping containers double as Compost Colorado’s new processing center.

The site — made possible through a partnership to "close the waste loop" on the National Western Center campus — uses “continuous flow in-vessel composting units that create the most ideal conditions for the composting process,” Compost Colorado executive director Noah Kaplan told Denver7.

“That auger that you see moving up and down is going to agitate and move the material to make sure the right combinations of moisture, nitrogen, carbon and oxygen are allowing this to cook at its most ideal state,” he explained. “At the end of it, you've got wonderful, rich, hot compost.” Compost Colorado Executive Director Noah Kaplan.

That goal of keeping organic waste out of landfills — and heat-tra

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