MacHow do you feel about compost?
November 26th 2008 00:07
We moved house recently, and had a compost bin. Obviously we weren't going to haul the dirt to the new house so we emptied it and mulched it up.
Got me thinking though, is composting a good idea if you don't grow food in your garden? It's taking good organic material out of landfill which would mean it would be far harder for less organic material to actually decompose.
For instance, cardboard etc won't decompose in a dry bacteria free environment. Plastic bags will decompose far faster if they are buried in and surrounded by organic material....
Maybe we are doing the wrong thing by putting all this organic material in compost bins instead of putting it in with all the rest of the rubbish. Composting maybe a short term solution to landfill, causing a long term problem in landfill...
Got me thinking though, is composting a good idea if you don't grow food in your garden? It's taking good organic material out of landfill which would mean it would be far harder for less organic material to actually decompose.
For instance, cardboard etc won't decompose in a dry bacteria free environment. Plastic bags will decompose far faster if they are buried in and surrounded by organic material....
Maybe we are doing the wrong thing by putting all this organic material in compost bins instead of putting it in with all the rest of the rubbish. Composting maybe a short term solution to landfill, causing a long term problem in landfill...
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