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 been landfilled.
Source: http://www.epa.gov/
