There are many ways to dispose of your food waste, some better for the environment than others. Using food to create compost not only takes care of the disposal, but it also gives you a great organic soil enhancer for your garden. However,…
There are so many helpful things by recycling; by recycling you will save space in the landfill for something else that can not be recycled. You can use your food scraps for compost, along with your yard…
The environmental protection agency encourages practices that reduce the amount of waste needing to be disposed of, such as waste prevention, recycling, and composting. Waste prevention, is designing products to reduce the amount of waste that will later need to be thrown away and also to make the resulting waste less toxic. Recycling is the recovery of useful materials, such as paper, glass, plastic, and metals, from the trash to use to make new products, reducing the amount of virgin raw materials needed. Composting involves collecting organic waste, such as food scraps and yard trimmings, and storing it under conditions designed to help it break down naturally. This resulting compost can then be used as a natural fertilizer (eps.gov, 2014)…
Composting is when waste is converted into something that is easier to manage, such as fertiliser. It means that waste can be converted into a saleable product and so the process does partly pay for itself. However, it is extremely expensive on a large scale and requires huge amounts of resources and time to manage. There is a lot of benefits involved with composting, mostly on the land. This is why it is considered the most sustainable processes, as well as the fact that the waste is being used and therefore does not sit around taking up…
Composting is nature’s way of recycling and is the key to healthy soil and a healthy environment. Composting is a cost- efficient way of getting rich natural soil for a very cheap price. There are numerous types of compost bins available to make; each enable the growth of lawns and gardens. A compost pile is usually made from fruit and vegetable scraps, newspaper and grass clippings, worms (that act as decomposers), and leaves.…
In 2017 they expect to have 4000 clients, 1.4 million scraps diverted and remove 100 cars worth of GHGs out of the atmosphere. Egor explains as an all natural compost, it helps improve soil quality and helps reduce dependence on fossil fuel fertilizers which is great for the environment. Composting helps the US food system be more economically sustainable. The process that they use is to give a subscriber and plastic bucket and food scraps are put in and picked up by a bicyclist and brought to a farm at the farmer help turn it in to compose then it is redelivered back to the subscriber or it stays at the farm to help with crops. The compost is also donated to local school and community projects. Bootstrap has 3 major benefits they are; offsetting the detrimental ecological consequences of landfills but reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Supplying compost for subscribers, providing and a platform for environmental awareness and educating the community about the benefits of composting. They have a very diverse set of clients from commercial, non profits and residential subscriber. Composting helps the environment by reducing the amount of solid waste that ends up in landfills. For compostable materials include grass clippings and…
Similarly, littering also has a positive effect on the soil. According to Bill Nye the Science Guy, “it’s good to litter so the trash can decompose and turn into good, rich soil.” The plants then suck in the good nutrients it gets from our garbage, and helps the plants grow. Then, the plants are harvested and put on our plates for dinner. Just another fascinating way human’s littering ends up in our daily lives.…
This removes the oxygen and causes it to break down in an anaerobic process. Eventually this releases methane, a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The implications for global warming and climate change are enormous. Methane is also a flammable gas that can become dangerous if allowed to build up in concentration. Composting your food scraps and green waste in a compost bin eliminates many of these problems.…
If the trash is continuity dumped in a landfill many miles away you just happen to forget about it, however people won’t forget if a landfill just happens to fall next to a home. Well with the growing amount of trash the amount of landfill space is growing smaller and smaller. A portion of the material is burned emitting harmful gasses to the surrounding land. The majority, however, is thrown into a landfill and forgotten. “Liquids that get thrown away will seep through the ground and could harm the soil.” (unknown). When the liquids are thrown away, they can seep into the ground and cause damage to the plants. When this damage is don’t to the plants it also affects the wildlife’s food. Under those circumstances, recycling would be much better for the environment and the…
It’s also worth mentioning that composting is a natural biological process – it is a natural way of recycling of organic waste and turning it into a valuable organic fertilizer. Unlike carbon dioxide emitted by burning fossil fuels, the produced amount of carbon dioxide during decomposition is a part of natural cycle and transferred back to the plants during the period of photosynthesis.…
By far, the most popular argument in support of a more eco-friendly lifestyle is the fact that it reduces waste and pollution. This is the main goal of going green and seems to be a good reason to readjust the way we live. One option to living greener is to recycle and reuse materials; this practice lowers the amount of waste you produce and in extent it places less garbage on the earth’s landfills. The use of alternative energy also helps by emitting les pollutants into the air we breathe. These pollutants are known to affect the ozone layer of the earth in a negative way and alternative fuels have been seen to emit fumes of less harmful gases. As if more of an incentive was needed, when a person pollutes and wastes less, they save themselves money by reusing old items and using cleaner fuels. It is a change that benefits the planet as well as your wallet.…
First, composting has many benefits for the environment. When food is disposed of in landfills, it is decomposed without the use of oxygen by anaerobic bacteria. These bacteria create methane. If more food waste is composted, then less methane is released to contribute to the global warming effect. Methane gas is 21 times more potential to make an effect in the environment than carbon dioxide (Obear). Composting also decreases the need for fertilizers and pesticides on crops. Unlike fertilizers, compost releases nitrogen very slowly, which means there will be a minimal negative impact on ground water and other surface water supplies (Benefits of Using Compost). The composted food is very rich in nutrients from the broken down food and can be used to make crops more healthy (Composting Benefits). Food waste can get very unsanitary if it is in dumpsters and landfills. Animals can get into it and cause problems. If waste is placed in a closed off container for composting, then it becomes much more sanitary and it is out of the way of animals (Rogers).…
It is important to note here that I am making a distinction between recycling and composting. Composting is the process of rapidly decomposing organic materials and wastes under controlled conditions (Composting, 2008). It is not a complicated process, but for clarity’s sake, it requires a certain Carbon-to-Nitrogen ratio or “browns to greens,” typically around a 30:1 ratio. It takes anywhere from six to eighteen months of aeration to mature, depending on the conditions and maintenance of the process. There are several methods of composting, but in the words of, Justin, a local gardener, “it’s hard to mess up compost.” If the process is so elementary, why is it instituted so infrequently? Landfills, often the concern of the environmentalist, are still part of the concern here, although the argument here is not so much against them as it is for their reduction on the consumer end. We, as consumers, are part of the problem. Analysts estimate that at least 40 percent of what consumers throw away is compostable (Murphy, 2004.). While the United States does not have as much of an issue with land available for landfills, communities are becoming less keen on having one in their backyard. This phenomenon, known as “NIMBY,” (Not In My BackYard) is a problem for all forms of waste management, including composting.…
The process of decomposition is the breakdown of raw organic materials to a compost that is finished it is a part of nutrient cycle and is vital for recycling the finite matter that takes up physical space in the biosphere. It is a restrained complex process, one in which both chemical and biological processes must transpire in order for organic matter to evolve into compost. Decomposition is very important for two reasons. It guides back nutrients to the soil that can then be used by plants and it kills the earth of dead plants, animals and their waste. Decomposition happens everywhere such as in the garden, in the soil, in decaying animal waste and in the waste of…
On the other hand people say composting takes too much time and it is difficult for schools to manage. I understand how composting can take too much time but when composting helps out our planet go green it will be worth the time it takes. Also people complain that schools can not manage composting. However, it's well worth managing composting because it will save money and help our planet go green.…