Most recycling companies use what’s called a wind-row process
in their composting facilities. They dump all their compost into long rows and then use a large machine to cut it up and artificially pump oxygen. It takes 30 days to crank out compost this way, which can speed up a company’s cash flow. However, if it’s not perfectly controlled, harmful chemicals and dangerous pathogens will remain in the resulting compost.
Organics By Gosh only uses a static pile process with 5 turnings over 6 months to a year to recycle organic matter into yummy nutrients that enrich the earth. This slow-cooks the compost at a healthy, 131ºF, allowing microbes, tiny living organisms to thrive and break down all the toxic and harmful substances in it. When you buy compost from us, all those microbes continue transforming your yard and enriching whatever grows there.
Composting Enriches the Soil, supplying beneficial microorganisms, or microbes that break down organic waste with all of its bacteria and toxins into component nutrients. This replaces the nutrient content removed from the soil by growing plants, replenishing the humus and enabling the soil to retain moisture and remain fertile. You’ll get our nutrient-rich compost when you buy Organics By Gosh premium soils.
Composting Controls Erosion, due to its greater absorption rate than conventional topsoil. This also traps storm water pollutants, binding heavy metals and decomposing harmful pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Using compost helps to reduce turf along roadsides, hillsides, playing fields and golf courses, while at the same time promoting vegetation.
Composting Benefits the Environment utilizing oxygen to quickly decompose food waste. Food waste in landfills decomposes much more slowly and produces 34% of all methane gas. And methane gas is 21 times more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide. But if we converted that food waste to compost, we could reduce the amount of methane gas pollution by 1/3!
http://www.epa.gov/waste/conserve/materials/organics/food/fd-basic.htm
Composting Saves Us Money. Americans spend an estimated $1 billion/year disposing of excess food. More than 1/4 of our food goes to waste every year. It’s the largest component of our solid waste. Not only do we waste our food, we then have to spend money to discard it inefficiently. Converting our food into nutrients for our land would enrich our soil and our pocketbooks.
http://www.epa.gov/waste/conserve/materials/organics/pubs/wast_not.pdf
Composting Benefits
1. Increases moisture filtration and permeability, reduces bulk density of heavy soils and reduces erosion and runoff
2. Improves the moisture holding capacity of light soils, reducing moisture loss and nutrient leaching while improving moisture retention
3. Improves the cation exchange capacity (CEC) of soils so that they hold more nutrients
4. Supplies organic matter
5. Aids the proliferation of soil microbes
6. Supplies beneficial microorganisms to soils and growing media
7. Encourages vigorous root growth
8. Allows plants to more effectively utilize nutrients, while reducing nutrient loss by leaching
9. Enables soils to retain nutrients longer
10. Contains humus – assisting in soil aggregation and making nutrients more available for plant uptake
11. Buffers soil pH
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