Garret Gillespie

Garret Gillespie holds a Master’s degree in agricultural engineering. He moved to the Yukon around 2000. Around 2010 he started researching industrial compost containment.1) He is the inventor of a machine that takes plastics out of compost. He developed the process over a six-year period while he was operating the Whitehorse compost facility. His company, Boreale Compost Enterprises Ltd. partnered with Vemeer Canada Inc. to tour the machine, called the Compost Liberator System, across North America in 2017.2)

1)
Renew and Regenerate: Compost 2019. USCC Conference and Trade Show. US Composting Council 2020 website: https://www.eventscribe.com/2019/COMPOST/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presenterInfo&PresenterID=571363.
2)
Stephanie Waddell, “Compost separator brainchild reaches fruition.” Whitehorse Daily Star (Whitehorse), 3 February 2017; “The Compost Liberator System brochure: http://www.borealcompost.ca/products/compost-liberator.php