I’ve been thinking about a compost pile for a long time and finally made myself to start one. It’s not as hard and time consuming to start one, the harder part is to save veges and fruits to put them in the pile. For starters, it’s a lot easier to do a simple compost pile [...]
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Composting is not actually considered recycling
This sounds strange, but composting is actually not considered recycling. Materials that can be gathered and reprocessed into new materials are called recycling. Materials such as glass, metal, plastic, paper, etc. Things that are biodegradable are not considered to be recycled. So don’t mix up your garden waste, trees, food waste, leaves with recycled materials. [...]
Create a recycling environment for your family
It’s easier to get the whole family to start recycling than you might think. Just telling everyone to recycle if not enough. You need to get organized and organize the closets and kitchen to encourage your family to recycle. Buy plastic bins and mark them with “newspaper”, “paper”, “plastic bottles”, “cans” and place them in [...]
Composting Organic Materials
ard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 23 percent of the U.S. waste stream, as documented by EPA. An estimated 56.9 percent of yard trimmings were recovered for composting or grasscycled in 2000, a dramatic increase from the 12 percent recovery rate in 1990. Accompanying this surge in yard waste recovery is a composting industry [...]
Compost is organic material that can be used as a soil amendment
Compost is organic material that can be used as a soil amendment or as a medium to grow plants. Mature compost is a stable material with a content called humus that is dark brown or black and has a soil-like, earthy smell. It is created by: combining organic wastes (e.g., yard trimmings, food wastes, manures) [...]
Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream.
Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream. That’s a lot of waste to send to landfills when it could become useful and environmentally beneficial compost instead! Composting offers the obvious benefits of resource efficiency and creating a useful product from organic waste that would otherwise have [...]