Bring Life To Your Yard and the Earth
Did you know composting is one of the most environmentally friendly things around? If you didn't know, composting is a process of turning your kitchen and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil. Composted soil is an optimal fertilizer for your yard, and helps with all gardening issues, including drainage, disease, and pest problems. It’s a natural solution to revitalize the soil around your home in a non-toxic, chemical-free manner.
With composting instead of tossing the waste into the trash, you’re also actively reducing the amount of waste you’re sending to the landfill. Landfills all over the world are overloaded, while the population keeps growing, so this is becoming an issue with huge significance.
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Many families can reduce the garbage headed for the landfill by half or more, by composting all 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. The Earth and every future generation will thank you.
By composting, you’re also reducing greenhouse gas emissions in what can add up to be a rather significant sum. By composting, not only do you to cut back the greenhouse gasses created in the landfill, but composted soil actively pulls carbon dioxide out of the air. 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 simple; there are abundant resources on the Internet, and 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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September 13 2009 10:53 am | Reader Articles
