Composting: Bringing Life To Your Yard and the Earth
September 20, 2009 
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Did you know that composting is one of the most eco-friendly things you can 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 an easy, natural way to give life to the soil around your home in a manner that doesn’t contaminate your soil with chemicals or poisons.
With composting instead of tossing the waste into the trash, you’re also actively reducing the amount of waste you’re sending to the landfill. 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.
Believe it or not, by composting, you’re also actively reducing greenhouse gas emissions in what can be a significant amount. With composting, you’re not only reducing the amounts of greenhouse gasses created in the landfill, but composted soil actually pulls the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide out of the environment. 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.
Imagine the difference if every family were composting instead of sending their kitchen and yard waste to the landfills. The soil around our homes would become healthy and nutrient-rich, the landfills would become controllable, and our greenhouse gas emissions would minimize too.
Learning how to compost is simple; there are abundant resources on the Internet, and 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 small investment of your time.
