Composting: Reducing Carbon Emissions

Learning how to compost is one of the most earth friendly things you’ll ever do. Composting is simply a process of transforming your kitchen and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil. Composted soil is a fabulous fertilizer and it helps with most every gardening problem, including disease, drainage, and even pest problems. It’s a natural solution to revitalize the soil around your home in a non-toxic manner, without the use of dangerous chemicals or poisons.

By composting, instead of just tossing your kitchen and yard waste into the trash, you’re substantially reducing the amount of garbage sent to the landfill, which in a real way helps cleanse the Earth. The world’s landfills are bursting at the seams, while the population keeps growing, and this is becoming a more and more critical issue.

Many families can reduce the garbage headed for the landfill by half or more, by composting all they can. If you recycling everything you can, there ends up not being much 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. In fact, it’s possible for a person who actively tills compost into the land around just their home, to offset a year or more of the average American’s carbon emissions.

Think about what an impact it would make if every family composted instead of sending their waste to 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 easy; there are plenty of resources on the net – 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 little investment in time.