Compost your Coffee Grounds and your entire Ecoverde Office Coffee System!!

What is Compost?

Compost is an organic matter resource that has the unique ability to improve the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of soils or growing media. It contains plant nutrients but is typically not characterized as a fertilizer.

Why is composting important?

Composting avoids significant methane emissions from landfills,increases carbon storage in soils, and improves plant growth, which in turn expands carbon sequestration. Compost has the unique ability to improve the properties of soils and growing media physically (structurally), chemically (nutritionally), and biologically.

What is wrong with my trash going to the landfill?

• Biodegradable products and food scraps that are sent to the landfill degrade and produce methane gas, thus polluting the air.

• Trash in landfills has the potential to leak or end up in a water stream thus polluting the water for marine life. Trash in water streams is also susceptible to being eaten by marine life.

• Though current landfill space is not to capacity, if we continue with our current waste disposal methods, landfills will eventually be at capacity and need to move to undesirable locations.

How can compost be used?

• Soil Amendment - Which increases your soils ability to hold water, and provides much needed nutrients that may be deficient? This will help any plants and grass you have growing to flourish.

• Potting Mix

• Erosion Control

• Turf Establishment

• Same Applications of Mulch - This can include backfill for trees and shrubs.

• Vegetable crops

 

Useful Information

Composting in the Winter - HGTV
Composting in the Winter - Cornell Univeristy
Restaurant Composting
Landfill and Climate Information
U.S. Composting Council Resources
Biodegradable Products Institute Certified Products
Biodegradable Products Institute - About Composting