Food Organics Composting
Food Organics Composting | Why Do It?
Compost is defined as a carbon-rich fertilizer derived from organic materials, including livestock manures, and other organic materials or mixed materials used to supply nutrients to soils. Compost is used to improve soil structure through the addition of carbon and provide plant nutrients. In addition to being a source of plant nutrients such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), it improves the physico-chemical and biological properties of the soil. In this sense, compost can compensate for a lack of fertilizers and improve food production. By
turning food waste into compost, we can give precious nutrients back to the soil. Understanding almost one-third of food produced for human consumption (approximately 1.3 billion tons per year) is either lost or wasted worldwide. Composting is a biological process that occurs under aerobic conditions (presence of oxygen), and requires adequate moisture and temperature in order to transform organic wastes into usable and valuable compost.
Most organic goods appear to be harmless as they are natural. However, dumping it in landfills causes severe environmental damage. When organic garbage is placed in a landfill, it undergoes anaerobic decomposition due to a lack of oxygen. Methane is produced, which is then released into the atmosphere. It defies sense to think that combining organic waste with a faulty disposal method
could produce a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, yet it can. Methane is much better at trapping heat in the atmosphere than C02. According to a 2019 report from the EPA, solid waste accounts for 15.1% of the methane gas that is being released into the earth’s atmosphere. That’s the equivalent of the pollution of 26 million passenger cars.
Building the Food Organics Composting Business Case
Plants that grow in soils amended with compost produce significantly more biomass. That means more veggies. Composting Improves Plant Nutrition. Not only do more plants grow in soils that have been composted they also grow stronger, reducing the diseases plants can get. Since crop failure is a cost for home gardeners as well as farmers, this makes compost another way to save money when growing food or other plants. Improving the soil and growing
plants with fewer chemicals are both environmental benefits, but there are more direct ways composting can help the larger environment by reducing greenhouse gases and waste. If food waste and garden scraps don't go to the landfill, this reduces how much space (and fees) a town pays for garbage disposal and how much waste can be diverted with composting, and how significant the savings are.
Save Food Waste from Rotting in Landfill
> Food waste contributes to more emissions than oil extraction! Help fight food waste and emissions by composting your food waste with rapid food composting technology.
> Food waste composters use unique technology to replicate ideal heat and microbacterial activity to create a nutrient-rich compost.
> This not only dramatically reduces a valuable resource to landfill but this will see your waste collection costs plummet.
> We fully support the National Food Waste Strategy to halve food waste by 2030.
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