As we’ve moved into the 20th and 21st century, we’ve left composting behind, thinking of it as a smelly, difficult and unnecessary endeavor. In its place we’ve adopted a two bin ‘recycle’ and ‘general waste’ system; one for synthetic materials that we deem recyclable, and one for literally anything else. 

But composting is up there as one of the best things any individual can do for the environment next to reducing the amount of single use plastics they use. The benefits are amazing:

• With approximately 30% of all waste being organic, composting stops this from ending up in landfill.
• Composting allows you to convert all the energy, water and time spent producing the food waste into nutrients that are returned to the earth. 
• Using compost in your own soil significantly increases the soils water retention, reducing the amount of water needed for plants. 
• When organics are buried and starved of oxygen (like in a landfill), they putrefy and produce nasty by-products that are harmful to the environment. Composting lets the organic material have steady access to oxygen, which instead produces CO2, water, and nutrient rich garden compost.

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