There are lots of great reasons to compost. Save money, save resources, improve the nutrient richness of the soil, and reduce your impact on the environment. Regardless of your reasons, composting is a win/win scenario. Good for you and good for the environment.
We can see a future where every business does its part in composting and reducing the amount of waste sent to our landfills.
- No need to buy chemical fertilizers. Compost is free!
- Compost helps to retain soil moisture so you water less.
- The nutrients from compost are not washed away by rainfall. No waste!
- Keeps a valuable resource out of the landfill.
- Waste less water since compost helps with moisture retention.
- Reduce civic costs for waste collection and thereby reduce fuel use.
- Extend the life of landfills. Remember residential waste is 40% compostable materials.
Check out Compost Now. We use them here in the salon. They pick up every week and turn our scraps into amazing rich soil that we donate to local community gardens.This year so far we have diverted approximately 401 lbs of food scraps in our composting. This will produce 100 lbs of rich compost, and avoid releasing 52 lbs of methane at the landfill. We have sent in for recycling approximately 75 lbs of color and almost 300 lbs of aluminum from foils and color tubes, along with 70 lbs of hair trimmings.
- That’s enough to offset 4,277 miles driven by a car, or like parking it for almost 3 months!
- Even better, the compost can grow 40 tomato plants, yielding 200 delicious tomatoes.
