REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES -COMPOSTING

 

RDUCING GREEN HOUSE  GASES –COMPOSTING

As individual you can do something every day which may seem

 insignificant but it can have a powerful impact on helping to reduce GHG emissions.

Start COMPOSTING everything that you possibly can.

There are close to 100 compostable items.

Incredibly, 20 % of all methane gas can be prevented!

 If you live in a City, where they have a Green Bin Program, your job is fairly effortless. 

If you live in the country, checks on line to find out how to start composting in your backyard.

If that is  not feasible, you can at the very least cut up banana peels and

 feed them to your roses, crunch eggs shells and add them to your garden

 soil, and add fruit and veggie peelings and tea bags to your  veggie garden.

Due to their acidity, only feed coffee grounds to plants that like acidic soil like azalea, oak leaf hydrangea, and Colorado blue spruce.

Why is composting such a big deal when it comes to global

 warming/climate change, you might ask?


Here goes...

Organic farmers use compost to grow healthy  plants.

As the plants  feed on the nutrients in the compost they create better soil.

As the soil becomes more vibrant and  nourishing, it not only produces more nutritious food,  but it actually is now able to store more carbon

. It turns out that 20% of all the methane gas found in our end environment comes from compostable materials deposited in our landfill sites.

When organic materials biodegrade in landfill sites, while deprived of oxygen readily produce methane gas.

Unfortunately, excess methane gas in the environment is way more harmful than carbon dioxide.

It turns out methane gas 30-40 – 70 ( check) times more potent than carbon dioxide in preventing the sun’s heat energy from escaping back into space.

As more and more of the sun’s heat is trapped by GHG’s, including

 methane, the Earth will become hotter and hotter. As a result, landfills

 have become the third largest source of human-caused greenhouse gases in the US

 I guess by now you have figured out the second  easy action to reduce the

 carbon load that triggers global warming is to buy organic food as  already

 mentioned they use lots of compost made by you!!


Some people lament that they cannot afford organic foods.

I would suggest to avoid ingesting toxic pesticides that you at the very least  try to avoid buying the dirty  dozen.


Dirty Dozen

Celery

Grapes

Peaches

Cherries

Tomatoes

Bell peppers

Strawberries

Blueberries

Nectarines

Apples

Spinach, kale and collard greens

Potatoes

 Now,  naturally you will want to know which produce  bore  little or no traces of pesticides

 ( President’s Cancer Panel)

It goes without saying that by reducing the amount of poisonous pesticides

 you ingest , you will reduce your risk of cancer and a host of other diseases!


15  Clean Fruits and Veggies

Onions

Avocados

Sweet corn

Pineapples

Mango

Sweet peas

Asparagus

Kiwi fruit

Cabbage

Eggplant

Cantaloupe

Watermelon

Grapefruit

Sweet potatoes

Sweet onions

 I have no idea why regular potatoes are dirty and sweet potatoes are not.

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