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What does composting mean?

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Compost is when plants and animal decompose and turn into soil. For anyone with a garden a compost bin, or compost heap, is an excellent way to keep kitchen and garden scraps out of landfill where they decompose anaerobically (that is, without air), so producing methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more dangerous that carbon dioxide.

It also produces a wonderful compost which can be mixed with soil or used as a mulch to keep moisture in the ground. So in your bin you gradually build up 5 or 6 different layers of:

* sticks and twigs so there will be air in the heap * Nitrogen producing material, foodscraps and green leaves * Carbon producing material, dead and brown leaves, wet and shredded newspaper, Pizza boxes

all covered with a wet piece of sacking.

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COMPOST IS COME THE MEDIEVAL LATIN WORD COMPOSTUM IT MEANS THAT IT CONSISTS LARGELY DECAYED ORGANIC MATTER AND IT IS USED FOR FERTILIZING AND CONDITIONING LAND.

~MARBHEN DOMINIQUE O. ABENDAño

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If something can be left to decompose to produce mulch suitable for use on a garden then it is considered compostable. Typical compostable items are scraps of meat and vegetables from the kitchen, leaves and grass clippings, cut flowers, and so on. Things that are not compostable are made of plastic, glass, metal and other materials that do not rot quickly.

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composting means to take fruit skins and banana peals and put them outside and use them for dirt it also makes the soil much better

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A mixture of ingredients

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they break down decaying things

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