How composting works!

This morning over drinking my tuerkisch coffee I found this very interesting information about how much solid waste USA citizens generate every day. The article states further that per capita the amount of waste is a little more than 4 pounds. This is double the amount since the sixties, when we hovered around 2-3 pounds per person.
The article goes on, and I like to hear that very much, the amount sent to the landfills has steadily declined, due to the great efforts of recycling and energy-generation application.

Well, the folks at Topdressing are contributing their share to the reduction of landfill bound solid waste of organic matter. Since composting yard, garden debris and some food wastes (don't put fruits residues on your compost, this creates alcohol) reduces the waste sent to landfills and for you green peace members, environmentally conscientious citizens it will create a valuable soil amendment.

Topdressing has been practicing Natural Lawn Care for many years and established an educational website just for YOU the environmentally conscientious natural lawn care practitioner. They are taking in other landscapers leaves, tree surgeons wood chips and manure from various animal species. They adhere to the latest findings to accelerate the digestion of these organic products by

Composting is defined as: the biological process of decomposition of organic matter. This process of digesting organic matter is called composition, a natural process, which we can be accelerated by mechanical means. Mechanical Means is turning the virgin composting material by hand or front end loader of your yard tractor at certain intervals.
In the digestive process the following side products are produced:

- Carbon dioxide
- Water are produced
- Heat

The end result is compost.
Other factors aiding in the digestive process of virgin compost materials are from higher levels of living beings in the category of invertebrate animals:

- mites
- millipedes
- Insects
- Sow bugs
- earthworms
- snails

Microorganisms are responsible to aide in the chemical decomposition and are creating the heat which we need to control otherwise we destroy the nutritional value of the future compost. Some microbes require oxygen (aerobic) to function, while others do not (anaerobic).

This is it for today but: You can create your own compost pile. Please join us another day and we will go into more details about that aspect of composting. For further information of how you can successfully use compost join me on the educational website for natural lawn care www.topdressing.biz