Compost Ingredients For Your Compost Bin

Organic Waste Towards Innovative Composting

You might be that eager to know the list of compostable items you can add up to your compost pile, but let us tell you how every organic waste you use in your compost helps our planet, Earth.

Water is basically the most important thing people needs. From taking a bath, to directly intaking it, water is just everything to us, humans. But if you think more deeply about it, Earth is abundant in water having 3/4 of it being totally in a liquid state. We disregard the essentiality of the remaining 1/4 of the Earth, which is the land surface, and try to take it for granted. Soil is the foundation of the growth of greenery which gave lots and lots of benefits to existence such as photosynthesis, composting, etc.

Modernity has taught us the value of trees and plants’ existence. The constantly changing world is telling us how the growth of technology is causing tremendous climate change. In fact, global warming is an inescapable natural phenomenon; yet through solutions like composting, its negative impact on the environment is greatly decreased. Composting is an environmentally responsible approach to using organic waste as composting procedures to lower methane production while also providing a number of economic and environmental benefits.

Making The Best Compost Pile From Selected Organic Wastes!

Organic materials are absorbed and reduced by microorganisms in the presence of suitable conditions, resulting in compost. Maintaining a suitable nutrient balance, proper moisture content, temperatures, and enough aeration are all important management elements for the composting process. Composting is a controlled method of hastening the breakdown of organic materials while also increasing their properties.

Instead of discarding organic waste in landfills or recycling it, composting promotes the idea of using it for vegetation. I’ve been talking about how bad recycling can be on our environment in previous blogs so let’s focus more on landfills. Composting not only keeps landfills from filling up but also helps to reduce soil pollution. Organic waste does not decompose entirely when disposed of in landfills. Methane gas is created as plant matter decays in this airless atmosphere. This potent greenhouse gas is hundreds of times more harmful than Carbon dioxide. Composting, thus, lessens the impact of landfills on climate change.

Composting also aids in the loosening of heavy soils’ compaction and hardening. It aids soils in retaining and storing water. Compost acts like an absorbent when mixed with soil, retaining water where the roots need it most and minimizing the quantity of irrigation a crop requires. Composting supplies nourishment and allows beneficial organisms to flourish. Retaining moisture in the soil and fostering healthy root growth, also helps to reduce wind and water erosion.

Making a compost pile is easy but it doesn’t mean you can just put any organic matter on it as this can backlash the development of your soil. Have yourself a list of compostable items that can totally help your compost development.

List Of Compostable Items

Compostable materials are anything made from organic material at its most basic level, however not all organic material is safe for most household compost piles.

• Manure

Manure is a low-cost compost booster and a great way to employ nutrients rather than accumulating them in a pile that isn’t being used and could be hazardous to water quality. All animal manures are high in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and other nutrients that plants require to grow. However, the amount of each nutrient depends on the animal’s diet as well as the amount and type of bedding utilized.

• Food or Kitchen Waste

All food scraps are compostable. Compostable items include fruits, vegetables, dairy products, cereals, bread, coffee grounds, eggshells, meats, and other kitchen waste.

As a raw composting ingredient, food waste has special qualities. They have a low physical structure and a high moisture content. As a result, they should be combined with some fresh kitchen garbage.  The problem with food scraps is that as they decay, they emit unpleasant and terrible odors. These odors can render a location uninhabitable for humans while also attracting pests.

• Leaves

Composting leaves produces an organic substance that is rich, and healthy which is good for the soil. It enriches your compost pile with nutrients, and the larger particle size improves tilth and loosens compacted soil. When used as a top dressing or mulch, compost preserves moisture and repels weeds.

List Of Non-Compostable Items

Composting is great in so many ways but there are some items we need to keep out of our compost to avoid ineffective biodegradation or, worse, reverse the development of the entire pile.

• Cooking Oil, Butter, And Grease

Among all kitchen waste, these 3 are the worst. Obviously, substances like oil are incompatible with water and they just don’t mix. It will hinder the moisturizing process which is vital for your soil to develop. Rather, this will attract pests.

• Plastic Stickers/Labels From Fruit, And Vegetables

Better take a good look at your food scraps before putting them on your compost pile cause they might contain plastic labels from your local store.

• Tea Bags

Materials (nylon fibers for preservatives) used to make tea bags will not decompose on your compost pile, but will contaminate the soil.

• Large Branches Of Trees

Basically not toxic to your compost pile, but it takes a long time to decompose which delay your compost process.