Composting is the natural process of recycling organic matter, such as leaves and food scraps, into a valuable fertilizer that can enrich soil and plants.
Composting improves the health of soil because it contains many nutrients that are good for plants.
Most Gardens benefit 4 or 5% more if their soil is from organic material or composted material.
The organic material releases nitrogen, which makes the plants grow more efficiently.
Every year across the world people waste 1.3 billion tons of food. If instead of wasting all that food we compost it we would release much less greenhouse gases.
Bacteria, insects, and microorganisms break down the organic material to turn your food scraps into compost.
Composting reduces Methane emissions.
Methane is a harmful toxic that contributes to global warming and climate change as well as being very flammable.
When you throw out your Food Waste with other trash it doesn't decompose properly and produces methane.
Reduces the need for chemical fertilizers, which are much more harmful to the ecosystem than compost.
Compost drastically reduces gas emissions because the food is decomposing properly, unlike in a landfill or incinerator where the food doesn't.
If you don't Compost:
If you don't compost your food scraps, they will either be thrown into a landfill or an incinerator. Both of these are much worse for the environment than composting. Let's start with the landfill. When food scraps get thrown in landfills they go through a process called anaerobic decomposition. During anaerobic decomposition, biogas is created as a by-product. This biogas is roughly 50% methane and 50% carbon dioxide. This releases both Methane and Carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which are both greenhouse gases.
Throwing food waste into an incinerator isn't quite as bad as a landfill but still not good for the environment. Food waste has a high moisture content, which means that it's quite wet. This makes using an incinerator inefficient. The moisture makes the incinerator cool down, needing more energy to incinerate the food waste and garbage in general. Incineration can also produce dioxins and toxic pollutants from the food waste burned.