Did you know composting is one of the most environmentally friendly things around? 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 an easy, natural way to give life to the soil around your home in a manner that doesn’t contaminate your soil with chemicals or poisons.
By composting, instead of just tossing your kitchen and yard waste into the trash, you’re substantially reducing the amount of garbage sent to the landfill, which in a real way helps cleanse the Earth. Landfills all over the world are overloaded, while the population keeps growing, so this is becoming an issue with huge significance.
Many families can reduce the amount of waste leaving their homes by half or more, by composting everything they can. If you’re also recycling everything you can, there ends up being relatively little to send to the landfill in the first place. And the Earth and future generations thank you for that.
Believe it or not, by composting, you’re also actively reducing greenhouse gas emissions in what can be a significant amount. 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.
Imagine the difference if every family were composting instead of sending their kitchen and yard waste to the landfills. The land around our homes would be nutrient-rich, the landfills would become manageable, and our carbon emissions would shrink considerably.
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, just get started with a compost bin or even make one yourself and begin with just a small investment of your time.
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