Sep 25, 2024
Help, my dog won’t stop trying to go in my compost bin to eat pistachio shells
When I began composting, I wondered, “how does composting food scraps benefit the earth? It’s just dissolving in my yard instead of a landfill.” So I learned that when in a landfill, food waste decomposes without access to air, which creates the greenhouse gas methane. But in a compost bin, it has access to air, so it composes in a more natural way and cuts emissions. And 22% of landfill waste is food scraps, so if every household composted, we could reduce all that,
