Composting - the why of it.

Have you tried to compost your food scraps yet?  Please consider it!  Because.....
In the oxygen-deprived environment of a landfill, rotting food produces methane, a gas with 72 times the global-warming potential of carbon dioxide.  Landfills are the largest human-made source of source of methane emissions in the United States, with a greenhouse-gas impact equal to one-fifth of that produced by the nation's coal-fired plants.
    Leaves and yard waste have been banned from landfills in 22 states, but only a handful of communities nationwide compost food scraps.  Last year San Francisco supplied residences with compost bins and made it illegal to put food and yard waste in the garbage.
    We need to start thinking of food scraps as a resource, not refuse.  When we toss them into a landfill, that resource is lost to us forever. (Source-Sierra Magazine, 3/10)  I am old enough to remember separate garbage and trash collection in my neighborhood in the Philadelphia area when I was growing up.  That garbage was turned into nutrient-rich compost prided by farmers and gardeners alike.  Maybe we can do that again!?!?!
      Just a thought ~ Wendy Burns

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