Learning how to compost is one of the most earth friendly things you’ll ever do. Composting is simply a process of transforming your kitchen and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil. Composted soil is a fabulous fertilizer and it helps with most every gardening problem, including disease, drainage, and even pest problems. It’s a natural way to give health to your soil in a manner that doesn’t pollute your soil with poisons or chemicals.
With composting instead of tossing the waste into the trash, you’re also actively reducing the amount of waste you’re sending to the landfill. The world’s landfills are bursting at the seams, while the population keeps growing, and this is becoming a more and more critical issue.
Many families can reduce the garbage headed for the landfill by half or more, by composting all they can. If you recycling everything you can, there ends up not being much to send to the landfill in the first place. And the Earth and future generations thank you for that.
By composting, you’re also reducing greenhouse gas emissions in what can add up to be a rather significant sum. With composting, you’re not only reducing the amounts of greenhouse gasses created in the landfill, but composted soil actually pulls the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide out of the environment. It’s actually possible for a family who actively tills composted soil into the land around their home, to offset a year or more of the average American’s carbon emissions.
Think about what an impact it would make if every family composted instead of sending their waste to landfills. The soil around our homes would become healthy and nutrient-rich, the landfills would become controllable, and our greenhouse gas emissions would minimize too.
Learning how to compost is easy; there are plenty of resources on the net – a simple search can give you all of the information you need. Then, start with a simple compost bin or even make one yourself and get started with no investment but a little time.
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