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What does sustainability mean? ➡️ How Your Garden Helps Fight Climate Change ➡️ Organic Gardening ➡️ How Do I Compost? ****
⌛ Time estimate: 10 minutes
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<aside> 📗 What is compost? Why does it matter? How can you compost right at home, and use compost to help your garden thrive? These are the questions we’ll explore in the following section on the world’s best natural fertilizer: compost!
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<aside> ❓ Did you know that the average family produces a ton of greenhouse gas emissions ⛽every year, just from throwing out their food and garden waste ? 🗑️
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Garbage in landfill sites releases methane, a very active greenhouse gas that has worse potential to warm the planet 🌍 than carbon . Composting those wastes ♻️, on the other hand, locks up carbon from the atmosphere for decades. Using homemade compost also eliminates those additional travel miles to the store for soil and fertilizers, products that have already been transported 🛻 considerable distances. Essentially, composting helps save the Earth!
<aside> 📺 Don’t just take it from us - check out the following video on why composting is good for the environment below!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFlsjRXbnSk
Composting 🍃 is often called “Black Gold” because it adds a rich source of beneficial nutrients to the soil. It’s full of rich organic matter that helps to build up the soil and make it a place where plants can grow and thrive! It’s recycling ♻️ nature back into the garden.
Your garden will be even happier if it gets composted soil! 💚
Composting is a great way to reduce the amount of garbage 🗑️ we throw out. The garbage we throw out has to get trucked hundreds of miles away (which creates air pollution 💨) and then is buried (which creates water pollution). Composting also helps to take out carbon from the air (which is one of the biggest contributors to climate change 🌍).
<aside> 📺 Let’s watch the video below to join SciShow on a field trip to SoilCycle, a place that makes compost in their neighborhood 🏘️, to talk to their friend Caitlyn and find out how composting works!
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