Aguinaga Green is S.T.A. Certified

What does S.T.A. mean anyways? Each month, we send in samples to the US Composting Council’s Seal of Testing Assurance Program (‘STA’) which tests our material in approved laboratories. We then can make these lab analyses results available to anyone who requests them. Because Aguinaga is S.T.A. certified, customers are assured that the compost we provide is the best of quality and is more than suitable for the planned use. That is why many companies and organizations specify S.T.A. certified products.

It's hot at one thirty

It takes over one hundred thirty degrees to kill seeds and pathogens that are present, even in "Clean Green" compost material.
The other components also required for the task are moisture as well as oxygen.
In order to maintain our STA certification and properly compost our products, we check temperature consistently to assure compliance with this minimum temperature required.

By rolling and spreading our windrows forward, then again reconstructing them into another windrow oxygen is added, which stops the material from becoming anaerobic, and promotes the microbial action that is generating the heat.