How much does eating locally-produced food help the climate problem? What are the other potential environmental and social benefits of eating locally-grown/produced food? Do you have a food garden in your school or at home? If not, do you want one?
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Composting to Home Grown Foods
Composting leads to the ability to produce homegrown foods. Adding compost to gardens strengthens the soil and makes the food taste better and fresher. When compost is added to a garden it enriches the soil and gets rid of plant diseases. Composting is a way of taking care of our organic waste without throwing it into the trash. Plastics in the rash and other materials will be burned emitting fossil fuels. When composting you are taking your waist and turning it into something for you eventually food. Compost covers a lot of our organic needs including shavings any time of food waste and leftover water. If you create small gardens with wooden blocks, you will be able to grow herbs and other small crops which will be enriched with your compost turning your waster food into more food. Home gardening also avoids us from going to large grocery chains which burn a lot of fuels in order to make small crops. Overall compost to home growing is an efficient and most effective way to reduce carbon footprint. Information from: https://www.epa.gov/recycle/composting-home
I completely agree with what you are saying! Composting is the best and most effective way to get rid of uneaten food, cardboard, and many other things that people may consider garbage and throw into landfill. Not only is compost good for the environment because it removes some of the waste thrown into landfills, but by composting you also can eliminate 20-50% of your household waste! People may think . that compost in landfills are not harmful for the environment, especially since landfills get . covered, but compost in landfills do not properly get to decompose since there is no oxygen. Without The oxygen that compost needs to compost, the compost turns into methane which is more powerful and worse for the environment than carbon dioxide. Up to 35 times more potent! If by composting you eliminate 50% of your household waste this means that in our home life we are contributing to the 50% of compost found in landfills, which make the landfills the third largest source of methane. To finish I would like to reiterate what you initially claimed about compost being good for plants. It is GREAT for plants, as the compost breaks down, its nutrients break down in the soil with it and enrich the soil in the needed nutrients.
My information was gathered from:
https://www.smallfootprintfamily.com/10 … an-compost