These easy tips will have you turning your old food into gold in no time.
Composting may seem like something reserved for farmers in Kansas or hippies in Woodstock, but it’s actually a fairly easy practice that any eco-conscious person can adopt.
You might ask, “Why should I compost?” Food trash makes up a large share of our garbage. In New York City alone, it’s estimated that 21 percent of trash is food waste—and with the city producing 12,000 tons of trash a day, that’s more than 2,500 tons a day. But when that food waste is removed from regular garbage it frees up space in landfills and diverts the methane gas that the materials usually create there. Plus, once used as organic material in compost, food waste adds nutrients back into the soil. It’s a win-win for the environment.
So if you’ve avoided composting because you don’t have a garden or think it’s too much of a hassle—but you do want to be a little better to Mother Earth—well, you’ve come to the right place.