![]() ![]() Composting involves minimal effort, equipment, expense, and expertise, and can be fun.You reduce the volume of materials that might otherwise be disposed in landfills or trash incinerators - leaves, grass clippings, yard trim, and food scraps – and prevent powerful greenhouse gases from being emitted into the atmosphere.Composting is a resourceful way to recycle the food scraps and yard trim you generate at home all year and manage your waste more sustainably.By turning our food scraps and yard trim into compost, we can transform our waste streams into a beneficial, value-added soil amendment and use it to protect the environment and create resilient communities. It is one of the most powerful actions we can take to reduce our trash, address climate change, and build healthy soil. You can compost at home using food scraps from your kitchen and dry leaves and woody material from your yard.Ĭomposting is nature’s way of recycling. ![]() They use carbon and nitrogen to grow and reproduce, water to digest materials, and oxygen to breathe. Microorganisms feed on the materials added to the compost pile during the composting process. The end product is compost – a dark, crumbly, earthy-smelling material. ![]() Composting is a controlled, aerobic (oxygen-required) process that converts organic materials into a nutrient-rich soil amendment or mulch through natural decomposition. ![]()
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