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Compost

turning food back into soil instead of greenhouse gasses.

Why compost

When you throw a banana peel in the trash, it doesn't harmlessly rot. Buried in a landfill, it's packed under tons of other waste with no oxygen — and in those anaerobic conditions, decomposing food scraps release methane, a greenhouse gas roughly 28 times more powerful than CO₂ at trapping heat over a 100-year period.

Food and yard waste make up a large share of what Americans send to landfills, and landfills are one of the biggest human-caused sources of methane. Composting is the fix: give organic material oxygen, and it breaks down aerobically into a stable, nutrient-rich soil amendment instead of a potent greenhouse gas.

The benefits stack up:

  • Cuts methane emissions by keeping food scraps out of landfills.

  • Builds healthy soil — compost improves structure, retains water, and feeds plants without synthetic fertilizer.

  • Reduces waste hauled and buried, lowering the cost and footprint of your trash.

  • Closes the loop — food waste becomes food-growing soil.

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