Composting can help reduce landfills
Solid wastes are an increasing hazard and a great cause for concern in many communities and composting is probably the only viable and long term solution to help solve this problem and protect the environment.
With the rapidly increasing volume of waste being generated by households, landfills and dumps are rapidly being filled up at a rate that could easily end up creating other brand new environmental problems and concerns even as the landfills are used to try to act as a solution to another environment problem.
Composting by a home owner can dramatically cut down on the amount of waste that ends up at a landfill and thus greatly reduce the need for them. Non recyclable paper and food waste can be composted using a home compost bin. In other cases, instead of using an ordinary compost bin, worms can be used in a vermicomposting bin. Either way the resulting compost can be used in small gardens or for houseplants.
In fact the rising popularity of vermicomposting means that composting can now be carried out indoors quite successfully. This has mainly been of great benefit to apartment owners and residents living in large apartment blocks who still want to enjoy the benefits of composting. The compost can be used for house plants or can even be disposed of much more easily and safely than ordinary unprocessed trash.
The impact of vermicomposting is set to be huge in the very near future. This is because it means that even the huge populations resident in large highly populated big city apartments and locations can also fully participate in compositing and thus cause a large overall impact in any urban area.
The sum result of composting and vermicomposting is that much less solid waste ends up at landfills and dumps, thus greatly helping to preserve our already greatly depleted environment. In fact composting usually ends up having a major impact on the quality of life of those practicing it and even those who do not, because the compost can be used on house plants or to practice organic farming which can produce numerous beneficial advantages and benefits.
Learn much more on this excellent composting resource site – http://www.compost-bin.org/ and read Joseph Jenkins – The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure.