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004 Composting Season Opens! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2004 Composting Season! Time to start that compost pile and reduce the amount of weekly household garbage you send to a landfill by over 50%!. That’s right, all food wastes (vegetable, coffee grounds, meat, fish, dairy) and paper wastes (paper towels, napkins, tissues and other non-recyclable papers) can be composted. Directions are available on our website, www.oneidacountylandfill.com. Gather up those leaves, build a bin out of wire fencing, pallets, concrete block, or whatever that hidden structural engineer in you comes up with. Bury your food and paper waste at least 1’ deep in the leaves, prevent precipitation from getting into the pile and you are a bonafide composter. Imagine the prestige and pride you’ll feel. Those folks that said you’d never amount to a pile of dirt will sure have to eat their words once they “get a load” of the compost you produce every 6-12 months. And what to do with this “black gold” also known as humus or soil organic matter? Top dress and/or till it into your garden and flower beds. And now you receive the real rewards of composting! Compost provides time released nutrients throughout the summer including nitrogen, phosphorus and many micronutrients which you haven’t heard of since high school chemistry such as … molybdenum, boron and selenium. Plants don’t need a lot of these nutrients, hence the micro prefix, and the best source of micronutrients is decaying organic matter, like compost. …Hey, I wonder if compost could take the place of daily vitamins? Second, compost acts like a sponge. Our sandy soils are generally only capable of holding 10% their weight in water, but compost can hold up to 400% its weight in water! Thus, you need to water less often, and soil with compost is less likely to leach nutrients, such as nitrates. Third, compost has been shown to suppress plant diseases, both by holding down pathogen (disease causing organism) populations and by maintaining better plant health. Healthier plants are better able to defend themselves against disease. So there you have it. Reduce your garbage by over 50% (and it’s the real smelly 50% too!), produce a product that reduces your need for chemical fertilizers, watering and pesticides. And the best part?… no license is required, composting is allowed under the patriot act (probably because George Washington and Tom Jefferson were both composters and Osama is not!) and the season never closes! |
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