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Composting is a way of speeding up the normal process of decomposition. If you throw away old food, vegetable peelings, and assorted garbage, it gets taken to a landfill where it will be buried. It'll probably be a hundred years or more before the average landfill gets dug up and the garbage turned over, and that organic material will stay there until then.
If you burn your garbage, the organic materials get incinerated, and the raw carbon goes up, literally, in smoke.
If you compost your garbage, then you are separating the simple organic vegetation (without any fats or grease) and adding heat and water to help it to rot faster. By next year, if you've done it even halfway right, you'll be able to take the composted material and add it back to your garden, to help your vegetables grow bigger. The same atoms of tomato skins can be a fresh pepper or carrot the next summer.
In the LONG run, it doesn't make any difference; the same carbon atoms will become new trees or hay, or cows, within a couple of hundred years anyway. Composting just accelerates the process.
Compost helps reduce methane emissions from landfills by diverting organic waste. It enriches soil, promoting healthy plant growth and reducing the need for chemical fertilizers. Composting also decreases greenhouse gas emissions by improving soil structure and moisture retention.
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How do texties affect the environment?
they affect the environment by cutting down trees
How is compost environmentally sustainable?
Compost is environmentally sustainable because it is both good for the environment and since it comes from organic materials, like leaves after they naturally fall from trees, we will never run out of it.
How changes in the environment affect a community of organisms?
how changes in the environment affect a community of organisms
Why do fungi and bacteria cause rotting to compost?
Fungi and bacteria break down organic matter in compost through a process called decomposition, releasing nutrients that plants can use. They thrive in the moist, oxygen-rich environment of compost piles, breaking down complex organic compounds into simpler forms. This breakdown process helps to transform the organic material into a nutrient-rich soil amendment.
Does pepsin affect pH?
Pepsin doesn't affect the pH but it is active in an acidic environment.
Would an environment suffer if there were no compost in it?
no
How does heat affect a compost pile?
Heat and Moisture break down the compost.
How did the atakapa tribe interact with the environment?
recycle and compost
How do compost piles affect the environment in the short term?
Cleaner air and other natural resources, greater pest control, healthier plants and soils, lower city and county garbage collection bills, and more sanitary buildings and lawns are ways that compost piles affect the environment in the short term. Carbon- and nitrogen-rich recyclables, kitchen scraps, and yard debris go into compost piles instead of in garbage cans and landfills. Compost piles produce natural, organic soil amendments, fertilizers, mulches, and rejuvenators that replace environmentally-unfriendly chemical inputs.
Why should you compost?
Everyone should compost because it is a win for everyone. Composting is good for the environment. Plants that are fertilized with compost are given nutrients that regular soil does not contain.
How are elements transferred from one environment to one another when using compost in farming?
yes, because it conserve elements and if no, it doesnt conserve elements ----------- Answer 2: ----------- Elements are transfered from one environment to another environment by nature or by humans. When compost decays, it releases it's nutrients (elements) into the soil. As water runs though the compost, some of those elements wash into and remain in the soil and some may wash into streams or rivers. Those that remain in the soil may be utilized in farming by planting seeds/seedling directly into the enriched decomposed compost or soil, or by mankind moving the compost from it's decomposition area to a different growing (farming) environment.
How do fault's affect the environment?
How do faults affect the environment
Why are compost heaps warmer than the surrounding environment?
Activity by micro-organisms and concentration of heat are reasons why compost heaps are warmer than the surrounding environment. A compost heap is exposed to the heat from the sun as well as the heat generated by microbial activity. Its internal temperature may be two or three times that of external temperatures in spring and summer.
What are the advantages of compost?
its very a very clean possess although it can damage the environment if disposing chemicals
What do people do to the environment?
You can pick up litter and plant trees; you can also make compost.
How do texties affect the environment?
they affect the environment by cutting down trees
How does meteorology affect the environment?
Meteorology does not affect the environment in any way
