Mawared Baladi | Production Process

BIODEGRADABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Ensuring the quality of incoming organic waste is essential to producing high quality compost. Our controlled waste acceptance process ensures that only suitable biodegradable materials enter the composting system.

Screening equipment at the Riyadh facility

ORGANIC COMPOST FORMULA

01
Urban Landscape
Green spaces generate suitable organic materials.
02
Landscape Waste
Accepted green waste is collected and prepared.
03
Organic Fertilizer Manufacturing
Controlled composting transforms the material.
04
Organic Compost
Mature compost becomes a valuable soil resource.

Waste Acceptance

ACCEPTED VS. PROHIBITED MATERIALS

Incoming landscape material inspected and fed to the screening plant

Palm trunks, fronds and green waste accepted for composting

Accepted Waste

Grass Cuttings

Hedge & Shrub Cuttings

Fallen Leaves

Plant & Flower Heads

Palm Fronds

Branches & Prunings

Clean Tree Stumps

Untreated Timber

Plastic and metal plant containers rejected at the gate

Prohibited Waste

Plastic of Any Kind

Pots & Seed Trays

Garden Furniture

Stones, Gravel & Soil

Metal & Wire

Treated or Painted Timber

Glass & Ceramics

Irrigation Pipe & Rubber

THE COMPOSTING PROCESS

Production System

Green waste shredded at the Al Kharj yard

Step 01

Green Waste Collection, Stockpiling & Shredding

Green waste is collected, stockpiled and mechanically shredded to prepare it for composting.

Controlled composting and maturation in windrows

Step 02

Controlled Composting & Maturation

Composting takes place in controlled windrows. Warming, thermophilic, cooling and curing phases support decomposition and a stable, mature final product.

Mesophilic 1

Initial warming stage where microbial activity begins.

25 to 40°C

Thermophilic

High temperature phase that destroys pathogens.

40 to 65°C

Mesophilic 2

Cooling stage where microbial activity stabilizes.

25 to 40°C

Maturation & Curing

Compost stabilizes and becomes ready for use.

Final Product

The screening plant running, refined compost discharging below

Step 03

Mature Compost Screening & Preparation

Mature compost is screened, refined and prepared for agricultural and landscape use.

PLANT & EQUIPMENT AT WORK

A wheel loader moving screened compost at the yard

Compost Loading & Handling

Screened compost is stockpiled, loaded and moved across the yard ready for bagging or bulk despatch.

A windrow turner working the composting rows

Controlled Windrow Turning

Managed turning cycles help aerate the windrows, distribute moisture and support controlled decomposition and maturation.

PLANT PERFORMANCE COMPARISON

Root zone photographs show differences in root development and growing medium structure. Compare the two samples below.

Root ball grown in standard site soil, sparse rooting at the edge — Standard Site SoilRoots reach the edge of the medium thinly, with little fine root development to hold the ball together.

Root ball grown in a Mawared Baladi blended medium, dense fine rooting throughout — Mawared Baladi BlendDense fine roots run right through the medium, so the plant lifts, travels and establishes with far less transplant shock.

COMPOST VS. RAW BIO WASTE

Untreated organic material and finished compost behave very differently once they are in the ground.

Raw Bio WasteUntreated organic material

Mawared Baladi CompostStable, screened, specified

Nitrogen

Drawn out of the soil as it breaks down

Released steadily to the plant

Temperature

Can still heat and scorch young roots

Stable and mature on delivery

Weed Seed & Pathogens

Carried straight into the bed

Destroyed in the thermophilic phase

Odour & Flies

A nuisance on an occupied site

None, the process is finished

Consistency

Varies load to load

Screened to a written specification