Composting

Composting, it’s gross, it’s stinky, and it can be downright atrocious, right? Wrong! Well, partly. Composting can be gross sometimes with food and other weird things decaying, but the advantages outweigh the risks don’t they? Good soils that can help gardens, trees, and plants are worth having a little stink. Many people think composting is hard, though it can be easier with the right equipment, the right c:n ratio, and the right boosts that will help kick-start your pile. Compost bins have many

First, I think that we should be composting for area school and all around use. But some would disagree around having composting in the school.There are different reasons why we should have those types of things in grade school, middle school and even high school. It could help with making this easier on everyone and not always having waist time on each day and this could also me could just being use just being in the house hold and your having to be a stay home mother and cooking a lot of food for

Composting is the controlled decompsition of organic materials such as manures and other organic matter. Composting involves a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological transformations of the feedstock. Mesoorganism like worms and milipeds, can break down larger agggregates of organic matter mostly by mechanical means. Chemical transformations in the composting process are mediated by microorganisms, primarily bacteria and fungi. The main components of compost are degradation product of

Review of Related Literature HISTORY OF VERMICOMPOSTING Vermicomposting, as an industrial process, was originally developed to remove unwanted organic materials from the agricultural and industrial waste streams. The derived product: earthworm castings, is now recognized as a high value material which, when blended with soil, can restore soil tilth by correcting the imbalances caused by the over-utilization of petrol-chemical based fertilizers; thus enabling crops and plants to naturally combat pests

Introduction Compost is organic material that can be added to soil to help plants grow. The concept of composting interests me. I like how it’s simple and has a good effect on the environment. All composting has three basic ingredients, those are browns, greens and water. Browns consists of materials like dead leaves, branches and twigs. Greens consists of materials such as grass clippings, vegetable waste, fruit scraps and coffee grounds. Having the right amount of all three of these ingredients

Aerobic process, also called Composting, is a natural process that rot or decompose organic matter by microorganisms under some controlled conditions. When raw organic materials like crop residues, animal wastes, food wastes, some municipal wastes and suitable industrial wastes having undergone composting, can make them become more suitable to apply to the soil as a fertilizing resource. Aerobic composting occurs in the presence of abundant oxygen. In this procedure, aerobic microorganisms

However, composting also has many other substantial environmental benefits. Composting is a very efficient sustainable process that achieves its goal of being environmentally friendly by enriching soil, remediating contaminated soil, and preventing pollution. One of the main environmental benefits

How to Be Successful at Composting As an avid gardener and as someone who is conscientious of my environment, I purchased a compost bin several years ago. I have an abundance of yard and lawn clippings that I am not willing to dump into our already stressed landfills. In turn, my efforts for composting benefit me greatly because I can use this finished material to improve my soil texture, the soil's ability to hold water, and as a fertilizer. Composting is a biological process for converting organic

If the bedding dries out, use a plant mister to spray some water on it. • Worms. It is important to get the type of worms that will thrive in a worm bin. Only redworms or "wigglers" which are "composting worms" should be used (do not use night crawlers or other types of worms). We grow and sell composting worms and will aid you in setting up your

should be given information on composting in order for them to know the positive effects. When students get to college, they are no longer under parental super vision. They do not have an authority figure telling them how to sort their trash. Students are able to think for themselves and make their own decisions. College is the perfect situation for students to change the way they thing about throwing away their trash. Students may not have thought about composting as an option because they were