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The Benefits of Composting Food Waste
TLDR Composting food waste helps reduce methane production in landfills, extends the life of landfills, and creates high-quality fertilizer by breaking down organic waste with the help of microorganisms. Composting involves a food web of organisms, including bacteria, worms, and predators, that work together to break down organic waste and create nutrient-rich humus, improving soil quality.
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Composting food waste helps reduce methane production in landfills, extends the life of landfills, and creates high-quality fertilizer.
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Composting is a simple and inexpensive way to reduce landfill waste and create nutrient-rich fertilizer by breaking down organic waste with the help of microorganisms.
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Composting is a process that involves breaking down organic waste into its constituent parts so that it can be reused by plants, and it can be done either passively or actively, with the goal of reducing waste and potentially saving on landfill taxes.
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Composting structures can be as simple as a single bin or as complex as a three bin system, with the single bin system being easier to manage and the three bin system requiring more active management.
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The hosts discuss what kind of junk you want to throw in the compost pile, including the possibility of using a spare room or your whole place as an Airbnb.
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You can compost kitchen waste like banana peels, apple cores, coffee grounds, paper filters, napkins, newspaper, corn cobs, watermelon rinds, seeds, leaves, grass clippings, and trimmings from shrubs, but it's important to cut everything into small pieces to increase the surface area for microbes to work on.
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Meat and dairy should not be composted because they putrify and generate disease-bearing pathogens, and it is also not recommended to compost pesticide-treated plants.
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The ideal composting scene requires a proper carbon to nitrogen ratio of about 30 to 1, with green and recently deceased materials being high in nitrogen and brown and dried materials being high in carbon, in order to create an optimal environment for the microbes and consumers involved in the decomposition process.
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Composting involves the introduction of energy sources to energy consumers, primarily bacteria, which break down the organic waste and create carbon dioxide, with other organisms such as fungi, nematodes, mites, slugs, and worms playing important roles as well.
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Composting involves a food web of organisms, including bacteria, worms, and predators, that work together to break down organic waste and create nutrient-rich humus, with the temperature of the compost pile forming a bell curve and pathogens being killed off in the process.
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Composting is complete when the organic waste has been reduced by 50 to 75%, is dark brown or black and crumbly, smells earthy, and falls through your fingers, and using the resulting humus as fertilizer improves soil microbes, nutrients, pH, chemistry, and structure.
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