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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Gabe Morelli, operations manager of Cedar Grove Maple Valley, places his hands in a mound of curing compost. The mound is about four stories high.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ John Stephan Banchero I, founder of Seattle Disposal and the Banchero/Malshuk Family companies, in Seattle in 1938. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Gabe Morelli removes contaminants from the feedstock.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Feedstock piled into mounds.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Cedar Grove Maple Valley site map. The "pie" is the circular form just left of center at the top of the photo.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The Gore cover system.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The kraken.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Nick Blanchette, Cedar Grove, Maple Valley facility manager, shows how the composted material is separated. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Bags of finished compost.]]></image:caption>
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