Free Planning Tools

Start your facility planning with confidence

Three interactive tools built on 25 years of organics recycling experience — free to use, no login required. Indicative figures to inform your planning conversations before committing to detailed design.

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Free tools
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Technologies compared
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Years experience behind the data
📋 These tools provide indicative guidance only. The figures are based on Australian regional-scale facilities and generalised parameters — a starting point for planning conversations, not a substitute for site-specific design. Feedstock composition, local planning requirements, regulatory conditions, and many other site-specific factors will significantly affect outcomes. Radicle Compost is available to help you move from indicative estimates to a site-specific concept plan.

Three tools, one planning foundation

Use them in sequence — understand the technology landscape, assess your feedstock risk, then size your processing area. Each tool is designed to surface the right questions early, before costly assumptions get built into a design.

TOOL 01 📊

Organics Processing Spectrum

Compare 9 technologies across cost, odour risk and throughput

Maps nine composting and organic waste processing technologies — from open windrow to anaerobic digestion — across four dimensions that matter most at the early planning stage.

Capital cost Operating cost Odour risk Throughput 9 technologies
Best used for Early technology shortlisting. Helps councils and operators understand the cost and risk trade-offs before engaging a designer or consultant.
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TOOL 02 🔬

Feedstock Risk Profiler

Assess your input stream across 5 risk dimensions

Select your feedstock characteristics — type, contamination, variability, moisture, and pathogen risk — to generate a scored risk profile and indicative technology recommendations.

Feedstock type Contamination Moisture Pathogen risk Process flags
Best used for Understanding whether your intended feedstock suits open composting or requires more controlled systems. Surfaces key regulatory flags early.
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TOOL 03 📐

Facility Sizing Calculator

Indicative pad area for windrow or static pile systems

Enter your weekly input tonnage, processing cycle length, and system type to get an indicative processing pad size and layout diagram. Covers windrow and static pile with adjustable parameters.

Windrow sizing Static pile sizing Pad area Layout diagram Volume calc
Best used for Early site feasibility — understanding whether your available land can accommodate the processing area your throughput requires.
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Start here, then go deeper

These tools work best used in sequence — each one builds context for the next.

1

Compare the technology landscape

Use the Processing Spectrum to understand what's out there and where different systems sit on cost and risk — before you commit to a direction.

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Profile your feedstock

Use the Risk Profiler to assess your intended input stream. High-risk feedstocks narrow your technology options significantly — better to know early.

3

Size your processing area

Once you have a technology direction, use the Sizing Calculator to get a rough pad footprint. Check it against your available land before going further.

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Talk to Radicle Compost

When the indicative numbers look workable — or the complexity starts to show — a site-specific assessment adds real value.

Radicle Compost Advisory

When indicative isn't enough

These tools surface the right questions. Answering them accurately for your specific site, feedstock, regulatory environment and budget is where 25 years of hands-on experience makes the difference.

  • Site-specific concept design and feasibility assessment
  • Feedstock characterisation and risk assessment
  • Regulatory pre-lodgement and EPA licence strategy
  • Technology selection and procurement support
  • Operational review and process troubleshooting
  • Business case development for council or board approval
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