What if you could cut your household waste in half… before you even recycled a single can?
According to a 2013 report from the EPA, 14.6 percent of America’s trash was food wastes, another 13.5 percent was yard trimmings, 6.2 percent was wood and 27 percent was composed of paper and cardboard. The remaining 38.7 percent was mostly comprised of glass, plastic, metals, and other non-biodegradable materials.
When most people think about composting, they think about pitching their coffee grounds and banana peels into a bin… yet if you really took advantage of Nature’s system, you can compost a LOT more than that!
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One of my favorite methods is to just dig a pit near a tree I’d like to feed or a future garden I’m going to build, then throw all the cardboard, bones, spoiled beef stew and other rough scraps into it. Nature does the rest. Keep a few bags of fall leaves on hand and you can cover the layers as you add them. If you’re afraid of animals digging it up, dig a deeper pit and pile on the dirt. Tree roots will find the good stuff—and you’re not contributing any of that organic matter to an over-stuffed landfill!
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Compost is the answer. Start to think about all the organic matter that’s hitting your trash and how you can do better to reduce waste by getting extreme with your composting. I guarantee you’ll find ways.
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