Why should we compost?
“About 95 percent of the food we throw away ends up in landfills or combustion facilities. In 2014, we disposed of more than 38 million tons of food waste.” The problem with sending organic material to landfills is not only that it emits large amounts of methane gas (a greenhouse gas that is 72% more powerful than carbon dioxide), it limits the amount rich soil that could be used again by living organisms and placed back in our lands, farms, and gardens. Think of all that food waste that instead could have been given back to the earth, where it belongs.…
