- 13% of the nation's trash is from food waste
- Recycling one ton of mixed paper is 4x more effective in reducing green house emissions than producing one ton of compost
- BUT keeping food waste out of landfills specifically is 2x more beneficial in reducing methane gas production
As someone who cooks a lot, and primarily with fresh vegetables, I know that I'm making some sort of small impact by composting my food waste. It's also really fun, albeit in a super nerdy way. My housemates and I have shared some very cute, very silly compost-love moments.
Since we're still mid-winter, there hasn't been too much action going on in our bin. It is starting to get rather heavy. I did start prepping my planter this past weekend, and transferred some of that dirt into the bin, which I think is supposed to help expedite things.
Has anyone out there tried worm composting?
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I saw that article too and told myself I'd write a blog post about it... I haven't tried it the kind they talk about in the article. I don know that once it warms up, if you get a tub of worms from a bait store (probably not too many around South Philly), you can dump it into your composter and they'll go right to work. I find shredded brown paper bags work better than newspaper, unless you happen to know the newspaper isn't chemical-laden.
Wow. Maybe they should add spell-checking to the comment box... :)
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