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Composting
Natural composting, or biological decomposition, began with the first plants on earth and has been going on ever since. As vegetation falls to the ground, it slowly decays, providing minerals and nutrients needed for plants, animals, and micro-organisms. This natural process forms a rich soil-like substance called compost or humus. Composting at home is the practice of creating compost using organic materials such as leaves, grass, manures and vegetable scraps. This organic material that can be used as a soil amendment or as a medium to grow plants. It is created by: combining organic wastes in proper ratios into piles, rows, or vessels; adding bulking agents (e.g., wood chips) as necessary to accelerate the breakdown of organic materials; and allowing the finished material to fully stabilize and mature through a curing process. Mature compost, includes the production of heat that will destroy pathogens and weed seeds that natural decomposition does not destroy. The benifits of composting is 1) the finished product & 2) keeping usable and required bio-degradable materials from ending up in land fills.