composting

Other than recycling, composting can be another way to be less wasteful when discarding things. The whole idea behind composting is to collect certain biodegradable materials and or products and confine them in a small space for insects and worms to break down these things into soil. There are a few general things that are commonly seen when composting that you should be aware of as they do not really pose any threat to contaminating the compost.





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• Paperboard or clean paper
• Dried-out egg shells
• Leaves, yard trimmings
• Fruits and vegetables
• Coffee and tea

There are a few ways to compost that I think are quite practical. There is the plastic storage composter, which essentially consists of containing your compostable materials in a plastic bin with the bottom cut out so worms can get to it and turn it to soil. Then there is vermicomposting which consists of dumping a certain amount of food waste in a small box/container
filled with about one pound of worms (generally red wigglers)
and adding small bits of damp newspaper on the top of the pile
every few days or so to attract the worms to their food and then
sit back and watch as they do all the work. Lastly, the lasagna method
consists of layering '' browns'' and ''greens'' on top of each other while
letting the pile grow, ideally in autumn so that the pile will have all winter
to turn to soil, so that when it turns into soil you can use this homemade
soil to plant your vegetables. here is a small list of a few things that can be
used for the lasagna composting method.

• Grass Clippings
• Leaves
• Fruit and Vegetable Scraps
• Coffee Grounds
• Tea leaves and tea bags
• Weeds (if they haven't gone to seed)
• Manure
• Compost
• Seaweed
• Shredded newspaper or junk mail
• Pine needles
• Spent blooms, trimmings from the garden
• Peat moss

Hopefully with these tips you might be able to give
composting a try and see if it makes a difference in your life.