WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE A COMPOST?
Lesson by Anouk. Thursday 8 June 2017
By Tumanako,Heaven & Hurileigh
- Why do we have compost?
Because it helps to improve in our garden and helps our plants grow more efficiently.
- How many food gets wasted a year?
- 1.3 billion people waste their food each year.
- 21 million bread loafs get thrown away each year.
- Did you know that you don’t put a banana with the rest of your fruit because it will ripen the fruit faster.
- Don’t put a onion and potato together or else the potato will get to soft.
- Don’t burn your plastic bag because when a huge cloud of smoke comes up that is a deadly poison.
- If you inhale that poison you will grow with that chemical and you will get sick at the same time as you grow.
- Why you shouldn’t bury your rubbish at home?
Because when you dig a hole in the ground and you through like nappies, cans, bottles, all of the liquid drips to the bottom of the hole and creates a toxic chemical called Leachate and then it soaks into the ground and then there is usually water pipes are under the ground and the the toxic liquid slowly drips into our water we drink.
- Compost recipe:
- Browns + Greens + Air + water=Compost
5. Decomposers
When leaves fall of the tree the bugs like worms, spiders etc, eat the leafs and then they leaves they ate go back up into the tree and then in spring the leaves that the worms and spiders ate turn back into leaves and that is called nature's recycling system.
6. Types of compost.
- Worm farm
- Black bin
- Japanese composter/Bokashi.
7. Did you know that worms had 5 hearts?
- When it is summer keep your worm farm under a tree or in a nice shady place. Because worms don't like being too hot or too cold.
- Worms like News paper, cardboard, Banana skins, fruit, manure, food scraps and more but don’t give a worm a glossy paper/ flyer, and don’t give a worm colorful paper.
- Also don’t give worms chilli, garlic, lemons, Dairy products, such as cheese, yogurt, cream, Leeks, and don’t put chicken with your compost because you can attract mice and maggots.
She played a song about compost.
- 300.000 x 1000 per year.
- Nearly HALF of your rubbish is usually organic waste.
- Our rubbish gets buried in a landfill, This is a hole in the in the ground, so if we put our food in the bin this is where it ends up….
- When organic waste like food or plants starts to break down in the landfill a polluted liquid is produced call LEACHATE., this is often toxic.
- Organic waste in a landfill also produces methane gas. Methane is a greenhouse grass.
- We can compost anything if the can biodegrade - (rot), we call this Organic waste.
- Composting puts important nutrients back into the soil.
- Decomposer are animals that help kell the leaves.
- Carbons” browns” - dry stuff. No ground weeds.
Clitellum
COMPOSTING AND GARDENING
COMPOST and WHY?
We need a mix of dead leaves, manure, etc to Improve our Soil! A mix of dead leaves, manure, etc.) returns valuable (vitamins, minerals, to the soil to help maintain soil quality and life-creating ability.
|
Organic waste in a landfill also produces methane gas. Methane gas
|
Before you throw something into the scraps check what you are throwing in first.
|
There are A LOT of things you can compost -- and not just fruit and veggie scraps. Tea bags, newspaper, lint and more.
|
You can make composting easier by just throwing anything compost-safe into your bin.
|
Composting can clean contaminated soil.
|
Some nappies can be composted. Broody Chick has invented nappies that are able to rot and breakdown in a compost bin.
|
Composting puts important nutrients into the soil.
|
Over 60 percent of what we put in our landfills is organic waste, such as food scraps. Lawn chopping, and paper, why would you do that when you could recycle that and compost that.
|
Worm composting, or vermicomposting, can be done inside.
|
Bad composting ingredients
|
Good composting ingredients
|
