WHY IS COMPOSTING IMPORTANT?

• The average person throws away 1600 pounds of garbage each year
• The average American throws away 4.5 pounds of trash a day
• Food comprises about 17% of waste stream
• Composting is sustainability at its finest for plants and other living organisms on this planet
• Composting helps farmers have richer soil allowing them to increase the growing season
• Composting reduces the need for chemicals
• Landfills-Methane emissions creating greenhouse gases due to lack of oxygen
• Compost-Carbon dioxide because of ample oxygen
• Compost is a great disease suppressor, season extender, ph buffer, time-money and water-saver and, it’s awesome for the earth
• Renewable energy source such as:
• Electricity and heat
• Renewable natural gas
• Compressed natural gas – Transportation fuel

 WHAT IS COMPOSTING?

 
Composting is the natural process of recycling organic materials into a rich soil known as compost. Anything that once lived will decompose. By composting your organic waste, you are returning nutrients back into the soil in order for the cycle of life to continue. Organics waste in landfills generate, methane, a potent greenhouse gas. By composting food and other organics, methane emissions are significantly reduced. Compost can be used to yield higher agricultural crops, remediate soils contaminated by hazardous waste. Compost is a great disease suppressor, season extender, pH buffer, time-money and water-saver. According to the EPA, Composting is the fifth tier in its food recovery hierarchy. "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle."