Most of the stuff you throw away in your kitchen is actually compostable: potato peels, vegetable trimmings, spent tissue paper, coffee and tea grounds, egg shells, apple cores, stale bread, food scraps.... the list goes on.
Compost not only becomes a valuable source of natural nutrition for plants and garden patches, it saves an enormous amount of energy from not being burnt in solid waste disposal. According to the EPA, 25% of solid waste in the US is compostable (12% food scraps and 13% yard waste).1 It even saves the amount of methane gas emissions from landfills, thus lowering your carbon footprint. Composting therefore gives double benefit.
If you don't have a garden patch of your own, you can just make a small pile or dig a hole beneath some shrubbery. If, on the other hand, you are a gardener, your compost pile could turn into the best-possible source of fertilizer for your little planties - without the use of chemicals!
A longer list of things that can and cannot be composted:
-http://www.compostinstructions.com/what-you-can-and-cannot-compost/
How to start a compost pile like a pro:
- EPA - Composting at Home (quick overview)
-Earth 911 Composting Cheat Sheet (deeper info)
1Source: http://www.epa.gov/Region5/waste/solidwaste/compost/index.htm
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Compost not only becomes a valuable source of natural nutrition for plants and garden patches, it saves an enormous amount of energy from not being burnt in solid waste disposal. According to the EPA, 25% of solid waste in the US is compostable (12% food scraps and 13% yard waste).1 It even saves the amount of methane gas emissions from landfills, thus lowering your carbon footprint. Composting therefore gives double benefit.
If you don't have a garden patch of your own, you can just make a small pile or dig a hole beneath some shrubbery. If, on the other hand, you are a gardener, your compost pile could turn into the best-possible source of fertilizer for your little planties - without the use of chemicals!
A longer list of things that can and cannot be composted:
-http://www.compostinstructions.com/what-you-can-and-cannot-compost/
How to start a compost pile like a pro:
- EPA - Composting at Home (quick overview)
-Earth 911 Composting Cheat Sheet (deeper info)
1Source: http://www.epa.gov/Region5/waste/solidwaste/compost/index.htm
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