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Join the Composting Revolution
Composting is an elegant solution to a complex problem: 1. Biodegradable food trapped in landfills releases methane. Methane emissions are very bad for the planet. 2. We need a place to put our food scraps, though. 3. We need fertilizer for our plants to keep them growing and healthy, but traditional fertilizers use fossil fuels in manufacture and transport. 4. When we compost, we can repurpose our food "waste" into a totally usable and valuable, but free, commodity, and spare the planet the impact of both traditional fossil fuel based fertilizers and food-in-landfill-generated methane. Whatever your lifestyle, location, time or budget, we have essential composting tips for everyone.
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How to Make Hot Compost
Composting can be as easy or as time consuming as you want. But a few simple tips can help build a hot, fast heap that will be steaming up your backyard well into the Fall.
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75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You Couldn't
The basics of composting are simple. Most people know they can compost fruit and vegetable peels, leaves, and grass clippings. But what about that tea bag you used this morning? Or the fur that collects in the brush when you groom your cat?
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Composting Basics: Compost Without a Yard
You don't need a big, roomy yard to start churning out your own compost. Farmers' market: Farmers' markets in certain cities, including the Union Square Green Market in Manhattan, have drop-off bins for organic scraps (such as fruit and vegetable peelings, coffee grounds, tea leaves, and eggshells) that will later be...
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How to Build a Worm Composting Bin
Composting is a great way to reduce methane and keep old food out of our landfills. The compost is great for fertilizing gardens, flowers or anything else you may be trying to grow. And if you don't want to grow anything, then just throw your compost under a bush or something, and you'll have done that bush and the world a favor.
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Buy Green: Indoor Composters
Composting can be addictive. Really. There's no turning back after you discover near-negative trash generation and witness the magic that turns veggie scraps, coffee grounds, and biodegradable packaging into rich, dark soil. Get started today with these indoor composters.
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Buy Green: Outdoor Composters
Composting is good for so many reasons: It reduces waste, can lower the cost of your garbage service, and creates crumbly earth to nourish the grass, a budding container garden, or even a community garden.
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How Not to Compost: 10 Things To Leave Out of the Bin
We talk a lot about composting here on Planet Green. While there are many everyday kitchen and some animal scraps that can be used, there are many that cannot. Let's look at a few common items that you should not put in your compost, especially if the final product is going to be used a vegetable or other edible garden.
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No Compost Required: Instantly Fertilize Plants With These 3 Kitchen Scraps
We all know compost, or "black gold" as some like to call it, is an ideal mate to your plant soil. Composting also reduces the amount of trash volume you send to landfills, and consequently the amount of harmful methane emissions released in to our atmosphere. But not everyone has the space or sheer willingness to have an outdoor compost pile or worm bin. If you want to reap the benefits of this natural fertilizer but don?t have the patience or compost heap, you can immediately use these three foods scraps to nourish potted or garden spoil and tremendously improve plant growth.
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Make a Compost Bin from an Old Storage Tub
Spring is right around the corner and that means spring cleaning, or even more preferable, spring simplifying. As you clean out your house, you'll likely end up with an extra storage tub or two. You can turn that into a compost bin to get nutrient rich soil for your spring garden!
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Visiting Friends Who Don't Compost? What Can You Do?
There are a pleathora of useful tips for going green around the house, but what do you do when you're away from home? How best can one take their day-to-day habits on-the-road? Being green is remarkably easy when you have the systems in place to make it fool proof. But when you are traveling and don't have those systems in place, it can be frustrating.
