You can compost 35 to 45 percent of the waste in your bin creating nutrient rich, organic plant food. Every country in the world spends billions dealing with waste, the financial cost alone could be halved. When you add the environmental saving on landfill and peat bogs etc it makes no sense at all to continue dumping vast amounts of organic waste into expensive holes in the ground.
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- Reduce the amount of waste in your household bin
- Reduce the amount of waste you send to landfill sites
- Deal safely with your pet poo
- Save yourself money
- Save your local authority money
- Save water
- Reduce the amount of chemicals you use
- Improve the health of your soil and your plants
- Reduce pollution
- Reduce soil erosion
- Save peat bogs
- Save yourself time in the garden
- Live off the grid
- Develope a work at home business
Composting your own waste at home can achieve all of the above.
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| We no longer live in a world where we can be complaisant about the waste we produce or the way we dispose of it. Recycling your own waste saves on landfill, the time and fuel to get it there, the energy used to process it, the cost to local councils to collect it and the end result is something wonderful you can use to grow food. |
| All your food waste, even cooked meat, fish etc, can be dealt with cleanly, simply and without smell in a space to suit you, using either a bokashi system or a green cone. |
| Don't just limit yourself to a bin at the bottom of the garden, you could have a worm box and a dry toilet. Dry toilets have been use for centuries to deal effectively with human waste. They are cheaper to install and maintain than a septic tank, can be used off the grid in remote places and leave no debris when you move on. Ideal for long term but none permanent events such as archeological digs etc. |
| Use the heat from your compost to heat your greenhouse in winter. |
| There is a commercial value too providing organic growing mediums and alternative energy such as biogas. You might want to branch out into a new business. |
REMEMBER
Eventually with no intervention at all, organic matter will decompose
Man has learned to do is speed up this process with a variety of techniques. |
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Organic compost is the cornerstone of organic gardening.
Organic compost can be made easily and cheaply in your own backyard. Anything that was once alive will rot away and can be used in compost. Most people will be aiming for a chemical free mix that compliments an environmental friendly way of gardening.
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