Composting: Simply a Sequestering Sink or Much More?
Composting can be either an enjoyable or a dreadful experience, can it not? Personally, being a landscaper I love to play with dirt so to me it’s sort of like playing in sand box – fun!
Composting is good for the environment and it’s a smart way to put the nutrients back in the ground. It helps to reduce greenhouse gases by sequestering carbon back into the soil; storing the carbon for plants to use. Sequestering is actually considered by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a carbon ‘sink’, because it takes the carbon (C) out of (CO2), and leaves just the oxygen (O2) to float into the atmosphere. EPA has more info on this if you’d like to read more.
In our first month of composting at home, my wife and I reduced our trash waste from three 30 gallon bags all the way to one bag. Wow! We now get excited to see how much we can do to reduce our waste. Our worm bin in the garage and the outdoor stackable bin are also put to use and are doing great.
If you have not tried composting yet then I would like to invite you to consider it. Relax, you really do not need to run out a buy a pound of worms to get started. There are a few simple ways to ease into it.
For example, you can begin by (more…)
