| Surprisingly, in a landfill, about 50 percent of the | | | | There, you can put your food waste and let it |
| garbage found is food and paper-items that could go | | | | decompose naturally. This is called passive composting. |
| through composting or recycling. But in a landfill, they | | | | But you could help speed up the process by turning |
| are unable to decompose due to the lack of oxygen. | | | | the waste once in a while, making sure the pile has |
| Without oxygen, the compost cultures which eat away | | | | warmth to help the compost cultures spread or even |
| at organic waste material would not be able to survive. | | | | by adding worms to aide with the process. |
| And without these compost cultures, the organic | | | | Composting can also be a community effort, which |
| waste only builds up, taking up space which could have | | | | could actually be more effective as it is easier to get |
| been put to better use. | | | | the compost pile high enough to generate the best |
| We can all do our part, no matter how little, by | | | | heat for compost cultures. On a smaller scale, some |
| composting our food waste. It doesn't take that much | | | | companies are now offering home composting |
| to do, especially if you have a backyard and a | | | | systems which could easily fit in the kitchen, and |
| neighborhood that supports the initiative. The easiest | | | | provide an effective means for recycling kitchen |
| way to go about this is to simply make a compost pile | | | | waste. |
| enclosed in a simple compost bin in your backyard. | | | | |