The food you throw away can be turned into a rich soil improver in your own backyard.
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How to make compost FAST in a garbage can: turn waste into GOLD!
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Millions of tons of food waste yard waste and paper products end up in landfills in the United States each year. Over time the material breaks down and produces about as much methane as about 22 million passenger cars produce in a single year.
Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 28 to 36 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide and every time you throw an apple core an overripe banana a bruised tomato or wilted basil in the trash—not to mention piles of grass clippings newspaper and cardboard—you’re contributing to the problem: The more trash that ends up in landfills the more methane is produced. And while diverting trash from landfills in any way can help composting is one way you can directly be part of the solution. If you have a garden it’s producing something you can use too.
