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Everyone who can compost should do so. It helps the environment, and saves you money on buying fertilizer for your garden. It is also nice knowing that your food waste is not wasted.
The only way to compost is where it's done in a closed off system where the methane gas is captured, it's not known to me what happens to methane gas when burnt, but if it becomes a heavier molecule after burning, then the solution for what to do with the gas once captured is rather simple….
While the earth has been composting all by itself even before we were here, the earth has a way to deal with it and has been doing it all along, the problem is that we plant grass and cut it weekly instead of letting it grow out naturally, we encourage the growth of grass to grow faster and we get more material that will compost a lot sooner than what would happen naturally, and we do this a lot with crops and other plants too, it's no wonder why the earth can't keep up with dealing with this problem, but the earth has a trick up its sleeves, it has a natural feedback system that will deal with any problems by getting rid of the source problem, if that means us! Then we too will go the way of the dinosaurs, they like to say that a rock fell from space that ended the dinosaurs but what if it was climate change that did it? The dinosaur didn't have the intelligence to realise that they caused their own extinction so they probably existed themselves out of existence…..
I'm concerned that too much focus is emphasized on CO2 emissions and nothing else…. We should be looking at everything like our lives depended on it…
This makes much sense! I do bokashi composting myself.
Ain't anything wrong with the environment.
Y'all actually believe earth can't handle a few billion humans??
This planet used to be 20°c hotter than it is and it survived fine.
The Borneo rainforest replenishes the entire oxygen supply every 24 hours. No way humans are causing any type of change.
We could also be using all that methane as biogas
How about sidewalk feces?
What I think is cool are the mountains that are created after a landfill has been, well, filled lol
Where I live, our landfill was full sometime in the 1980s.. Since then, the area has been untouched. Completely.. Now there’s a huge open field with beautiful green grass.. Because of the location, it’s in the process of being registered as a “dark spot”, and is open to the public… You have to walk up, still can’t drive up lol
It may help american farmers if the government quits leasing land to Saudis that use it to grow alfalfa which takes ALOT of water and it gets sent overseas to feed animals.
Americans don’t do compost? Here in Switzerland it’s compulsory, we must separate our trash or we get fined, we also have to pay extra for trash bags
Waste segregation from source is the effective way to sustainable recycling. Organic and inorganic waste should be seperated from the source.
The UK does it.
I was just thinking about composting
Chickens can eat all your scraps besides bones and a few other things . Give them spicy stuff to stave off parasites.