Ideally, in composting you get paid a decent fee to receive, process and create a quality product. But what happens when it doesn’t go quite right ? Maybe you have a solid contract for food waste, but now you’re overwhelmed by the sheer volume of material you need to process in a timely manner. You can only pre-mix and stockpile so much material. If you don’t process it fast enough, you can get tangled in regulatory issues. This is where biochar comes in. While carbon products have been used for decades to clean up spills and contaminants, using charcoal in composting has been largely ignored. In many cases in the past, carbon was just too expensive. With newer, less expensive sources, it can now provide a lower cost option.