Composting

The most common way of recycling by-product waste is compost. It's very difficult to point out
where composting first started. Many have said it came from Romans, Greeks, and Tribes of
Israel that knew about compost. The North American Natives and the first early European settlers
of America made compost to support their farms. Our ancestors believe that compost was a
helpful growth for the plan and improves the health of the quality of the soil. They didn't know
how it worked and why. Although todays use of compost expands from backyard gardening to
fertilizer, mulch, manure, and recycled wasted from our trash, we should consider many harmful
chemicals that affect our landfill and as a result, start looking forward to changing how we
dispose of waste by proposing companies on biodegradable products.
We see nature as clean and elegant view, but it takes a lot more than what we can see on the
surface. When gardening, it is necessary to spread fertilizer on the plants. This fertilizer adds
elements that help the plant grow healthy and faster. Not only the need of the use of fertilizer but
another layer on gardening to make the plants look elegant with finishing touches by adding
mulch. Mulch is commonly used to landscape the surrounding area. It is the combined of bark,
wood chips, sawdust, some straw, and rocks like volcanic ones and many other organic plants.
The reason it is used widely for much different uses is because it helps to reduce the amount of
water loss from the soil. It is also known for protecting the plants from weeds that harm it.
Although there is so much that mulch can do, its main use is different depending on the mulch
and the grower. Gardener or landscaper is to know the soil so a proper use of the mulch benefit
the entire landscape. This cycle of reusing recycled waste as an organic nutrient source. The
beauty of nature is captured on through color and experience in The Basic Book of Organic
Gardening In which was a chapter on "Organic Living- Why Is It So Vital? By Robert, Rodale

mentions that "The idea of conservation and nature living is on the verge of being a vital
necessity a life preserver within reach of people almost drowning in the effluence of their own
mistakes. The virgin land is no more. The quite place in the country are being built up. The air
and water are dirty almost everywhere". (Rodale) Robert Rodale wanted us to understand how
valuable today's change of using organic materials will affect our choices on living around a
place peacefully. Rodale also wanted that if we picture nature as a living thing with a timeline to
its death. Our mistakes of using materials for our own greed like creating the low cost of
fertilizer, mulch, and overall use of compost. Every moment cherishes to save nature will help
our last memory of finding peace with our surroundings and see how the beauty of nature is
never replaced with shortcuts to a solution.
Composting also has great benefits of cleaning the soil and stop pollution. Robert Rodale
would be proud of some of the changes that the United States Environment Protection Agency
(EPA) mention that composting is a great way to regenerate poor soil. It can also prevent erosion
to landmarks and degrade its use to help the chemicals that were added to help the soil or plant
become rich of nutrient and preservatives the organic material. Composting lowers the need of
fertilizer as a method of compost, because of how rich in nutrient it becomes. The Environment
Protection Agency used composting to many changes around the community. It wants to look
towards the future of building the best management practices. This practice of best management
was created by the United Sates Composting Council. The practice involves improving the
quality of the water. This also increasing the water infiltration that other issues like the drought
are fixed with reducing its use of water. Its also another reason the practice is to use to change
many areas that are flooded. The practice creates a compost storm water. This help stops a huge
amount of water flowing down the path of areas that are drought. While promoting the

establishment of vegetation helps the areas that just don't have enough water. This type of
practice with composting improves the downstream of water quality of less flash flood and
constringes the pollutants. The United States Composting Council has created this program to
help change the future of agricultural, companies and also how we see nature as. This program is
to test the compost and also labeling the elements that are in the soil. The purpose is to improve
how we used compost and the confidence of how we should be composting selection for a client
or customer. This also insures that compost on an agricultural, mainstream horticultural and retail
product or just everyday use such as gardening.
We greatly enjoy a clean area of us to live in but having clean surrounding
questions where does all the trash or waste go? Well, it can only down towards the
ocean of landfills or recycled back into community for more used like composting.
The change we face is how to remove waste products that are difficult to process
down to its element it's made from. We then tend to see nature as clean and natural
but we need to face the fact that all underneath the beauty is mud, trash, leafs, and
waste products. There's a process how landfills get trash called regionalization. It is
based on what part of area region you live at. It's a group of government comping
together working in effecting and accomplish their solid waste. This is done right
now throughout landfills around where you lived. Each area has its own area were
the deposit of waste is dump and process. The cost of dumping waste cost a huge
amount of money. The Regionalization is a very popular method used to spread out
the cost of maintaining production and waste. The cost of managing a landfill is costly. On a

film about composting programs that are public and private says that 10 years ago it would
have been not uncommon to have a landfill fee of $8.00 and $10 per ton. Today the typical cost
is anywhere from $20 to $30 tons.( Regionalization) This fee will create conflict with

communities taking money from areas that have no local landfill. The more waste cost and the
further the area dumps are the cost is more. Not only the cost but a number of
harmful chemicals are being dumped on landfills. While picturing the cost of the landfill

not only the great use it has composting on a landfill can also be a good thing. All the harmful
chemicals are collected and that is no fee charge or leaving waste that creates chemicals that
contact very rich nutrient. This nutrient is used more effectively than manure from animal waste.
This natural compound is carbon dioxide. Rodale during his nine-years of studying public a
journal about using compost in the peer review journal of Compost Science and Utilization that
by just applying compost it can create about 10,802 pounds of carbon dioxide more than what a
farming used of manure can create. Rodale says research director Paul Hepperly, the author of
the study. When you are composting, you are stabilizing the carbon" in organic matter.
Although Rodale is right about the landfill its cost and how much waste has to be used before
creating natural gasses like carbon dioxide animal manure is cheaper compared to compost
gasses. Compost is very effective on helping the soil become rich in nutrients it takes time for
compost to become rich with natural organic matter. Might be why Rodale took nine years of
studying how compost reacts.
There has been a huge increase on biodegradable products. Not only just recycling waste
but looking towards better use of natural elements. At home, more than just junk is around but
paper plates, clothing, and towels. May take 30 years to breakdown to its original form today
more items are used as biodegradable products. Such as everyday use like paper which is
recycled or reused into tables, pencils, or toward garden to help weeds not grow or help grass
process value nutritious elements faster. Today more and more products that are biodegradable
are used there is list of products and group form by Biodegradable Products Institute. The main

propose of the institute is to ensure the education of consumers about biodegradable products and
create standards that many others can adoption to help other organizations.

Works Cited
Regionalization / Solid Waste Management Success Stories. Films On Demand. Films Media
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Rodale, Robert, and Glenn F. Johns. "Organic Living Why Is It So Vital?" The Basic Book of
Organic Gardening. New York: Ballantine Book, 1971. 7. Print
Us Epa, Region 5, Land And Chemicals Division. (n.d.): n. pag. Www3.epa.gov. United States
Environment Protection Agency, 10 Mar. 2009. Web. 25 Apr. 2016.