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Composting Made Easy
INSTITUTE OF HEALTH & WELLNESS
Turn Food Waste into ‘Black Gold’
218 SW Atlanta Avenue • Stuart
Located on the water in beautiful downtown Historic Stuart
Deborah A. DeMarta, MD
772-539-9556 • InstituteHealthWellness.com
Just 3 percent of uneaten food in the U.S. is composted, reported the Natural Resources Defense Council in 2012. The remaining food scraps rotting in landfills account for 23 percent of U.S. methane emissions, a greenhouse gas at least 25 times more powerful than carbon monoxide in global warming. With minimal planning and effort, however, food scraps can be recycled through composting into an organic, high-nutrient fertilizer. Compost is called “black gold” for its high value in gardening, but it’s simply decayed organic material. Consider all the organic materials that fall to the forest floor, break down and return to the earth. This process can be easily recreated at home.
To start composting, get a couple of containers. n A covered kitchen bucket. Beautiful containers abound, but an old pan will work. Countertop positioning makes it easy to toss in kitchen scraps, but it could also be placed under the sink or in the freezer. A review of several options 20
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