Composting is one of the most environmentally friendly things around. If you didn’t know, composting is a process of turning your kitchen and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil. Composted soil is an optimal fertilizer for your yard, and helps with all gardening issues, including drainage, disease, and pest problems. It’s a natural way to give health to your soil in a manner that doesn’t pollute your soil with poisons or chemicals.

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. Landfills all over the world are overloaded, while the population keeps growing, so this is becoming an issue with huge significance.

Many families can reduce the amount of waste leaving their homes by half or more, by composting everything they can. If you recycling everything you can, there ends up not being much to send to the landfill in the first place. And the Earth and future generations thank you for that.

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 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.

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