Do you want to start creating a positive impact on Mother Earth? Composting is the easiest way to begin, and there's very little effort required to start. You just need to take a few simple steps to identify what food scraps and yard trimmings have the potential to be composted before you get begin. This compost can be used to fertilize herb gardens, flowerbeds, or simply add some of this nutrient rich material to your potted plants to give them a flourishing jump start on the growth season.
Composting has been going through a bit of a resurgence over the past decade. People are beginning to realize how easy it is to reduce the negative impact that their organic food waste can have on landfills, and you can be the next step to helping solve this problem! The Environmental Protection Agency, states that yard trimmings, and food scraps alone make up 26 percent of the waste that fills up our U.S. landfills. This fact isn't terribly surprising, but you may not realize that once the waste hits a landfill, it breaks down much slower than it would if you were to compost it yourself. This is due to the lack of air, which can lead to excess methane production. On top of reducing your contribution to a landfill, you also will be passively doing the following:
Now that you've decided to start composting all of that wasted organic material, how should we go about it? A September 2017 article from the Columbia Basin Herald states that the steps to composting are as follows:
Learning to cooperate towards a common goal as a family can be a great life lesson, get the whole household involved! You'll find that this may inspire a whole new outlook on taking care of the planet, and how to generally manage our natural resources in a more efficient manner.