Composting Supplies

Welcome to compostingstore.org! If you are here looking for more information on ways that you can reduce your carbon footprint and live more sustainably, then you have come to the right place. Composting is one of the less trumpeted green practices that can make a large difference in the waste your everyday life creates. It can be done in a home built composter, or in a specially designed and commercially sold composting bin.
So with that said, what exactly is composting, where did it come from, and how is it useful to us today? According to historical records, composting was used at least as far back as the height of the Roman Empire. It is a process by which organic compounds are broken down by bacteria, producing a rich, fertile soil compound.

The historical application of compost was as a fertilizer, and that is still a good use today. In ancient times, people would pile food scraps, the discarded remnants of plants and animals, and just about any other organic waste they could find in a location. This pile of trash would break down over the course of a year to form a soil compound that could be used as fertilizer the following planting season. The practice probably predates the Romans to at least the ancient Greeks, if not all the way back to the Babylonians and Egyptians.

The raw form of compost creation was less efficient and effective than modern composting bins at creating a clean, useful fertilizer for several reasons. The first and most pressing advantage composting bins have over a simple trash heap is that you have control over what comes into contact with your compost during the decomposition process. If you simply leave a pile of organic material out in the elements for a year, it will be exposed to environmental bacteria and also to your local noxious weeds. Weeds are characterized by both their hardiness and their undesirable leeching of soil nutrients. This means that before your compost pile is ready for use as fertilizer, weeds could sprout in it and be busily sapping the very nutrients that composting is so good at producing.

And while creating fertilizer from compost is one great way to live a greener life, that doesn?t even touch on the best advantage that it offers a carbon conscious consumer: conservation! Every pound of trash that you toss into a compost bin is a pound of trash that the garbage men don?t have to burn fuel to pick up and transport. It?s also a pound that doesn?t rot in a landfill and can be put to good use rather than sealed away. All this is in addition to the fact that you cut out industrially produced, chemical laden fertilizers from your personal gardening cycle, making your home fruits and vegetables that much less polluted by the rigors of modern life.

So while there are other things you can do to become a more environmentally conscious consumer; few are as simple and inexpensive and yet so effective at both reducing your waste and producing a useful product for your personal use. Thank you for visiting us, and we hope you enjoy your stay!