Learning how to compost is one of the most earth friendly things you’ll ever do. If you didn’t know, composting is a process of turning your kitchen and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil. Composted soil is a fabulous fertilizer and it helps with most every gardening problem, including disease, drainage, and even pest problems. It’s a natural way to give health to your soil in a manner that doesn’t pollute your soil with poisons or chemicals.

By composting, instead of just tossing your kitchen and yard waste into the trash, you’re substantially reducing the amount of garbage sent to the landfill, which in a real way helps cleanse the Earth. The world’s landfills are bursting at the seams, while the population keeps growing, and this is becoming a more and more critical issue.

Many families can reduce the garbage headed for the landfill by half or more, by composting all they can. If you recycling everything you can, there ends up not being much to send to the landfill in the first place. The Earth and every future generation will thank you.

Believe it or not, by composting, you’re also actively reducing greenhouse gas emissions in what can be a significant amount. With composting, you’re not only reducing the amounts of greenhouse gasses created in the landfill, but composted soil actually pulls the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide out of the environment. In fact, it’s possible for a person who actively tills compost into the land around just their home, to offset a year or more of the average American’s carbon emissions.

Think about what an impact it would make if every family composted instead of sending their waste to landfills. The soil around our homes would become healthy and nutrient-rich, the landfills would become controllable, and our greenhouse gas emissions would minimize too.

Learning how to compost is easy; there are plenty of resources on the net - a simple search can give you all of the information you need. Then, just get started with a compost bin or even make one yourself and begin with just a little investment in time.