Beginner's Guide to Composting | One Small Step | NowThis

What is compost? How does composting work? Lucy Biggers is here to answer all your questions to show you what happens to our food waste — welcome to Composting 101.

According to the EPA, food accounts for 20% of what Americans throw away everyday. Food in landfills cause 15% of Methane Gases in the U.S. and a major cause of climate change. So what can we do about this? Lucy Biggers is on a mission to find out how her old food gets turned into compost.

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[flyingfire]

Germany has had this for such a long time i can’t remember when we didn’t have it. Either you have your own compost in your garden or you have a normal bin that gets collected by the city and then composted in a big scale.

[saiy]

This girl needs more subscribers...please spread this...love from india

[AJsGreenTopics]

Glad to see that people are helping the cause.

[RadioImmunoAssay]

I kept a worm composting system under my kitchen sink for at least a year and it really cut down on the odor created by food waste rotting in the trash can😊

[llt]

I used to live in a city where they collected your compost (which did include meat, cheese and processed scraps as well) weekly. Then they took it and processed into fuel to run the pick-up vehicles.

[exhaustedsprout]

We've been doing the enhanced version of this in Finland since long before my birth, biological waste (anything from plants to meat and dairy) is collected in the same way as regular waste and all that the average person has to do is keep to separate bins. Currently there's also a legal requirement for apartment buildings to have the bins along with recycling stations for paper, cardboard, metal, glass and plastic, available and properly maintained

[ferreterialuciopraderavall]

I don’t understand why 17 persons don’t like this amazing video. If this is the secret of the good life. We need open the eyes. Good work greetings in from Colombia

[jaysonvilleza]

Our composting process here in our city in the Philippines uses anaerobic process so the compost/soil enhancer is ready within a month. But yours is great as you have 3.3 million residents participating in the program.

[Ramiz]

We don't have system like this in my city. The garbage vehicle just collect all the thrash and they don't compost it so i make my own comost at home. The most difficult part was to teach my family to separate the dry and wet waste so i can use it. First they thought I'm crazy but when they saw the finished compost and it's effects in the garden they just fell in love with it.

[franciso-y]

thanks. This is critical help towards plant life and a sustainable environment.

[anh]

This video was so helpful! I compost in NYC too. Every Wednesday I drop off my fruits/veggies scraps at the farmers market. I use Trader Joe’s product bags to carry all of my scraps because they are compostable. It’s so nice to see the process of how it becomes food for plants!

[Nicholas-f]

Ask your city to make it the law for condos and apartments to have access to compost! 🌱

It's taken a year of calls and emails here in Austin and we can't get it due to our slumlords.

[davidleal]

It’s very hard for many people to compost as more people are moving to cities were it is significantly harder to compost this material. Also the land to compost these scraps is more expensive especially in cities where these flatter areas are in higher demand for more development.

That being said it’s still important to compost especially for families in the suburbs were they can teach their kids new skills. Just like in my household. We compost everything from shredded papers to expired produce. It works out as we help the earth and save money on fertilizer for our garden.

[Performak_YT]

I live in a building and I have a composting system in my balcony, it helps me reduce a lot of the trash I throw away each day, like a 50% of it!

[joannesantos]

i live in a suburban area in my country. i do my composting in an old rice sack. we used to have a tree in our back area and i used the fallen, dry, browning leaves for carbon, along with some used paper bags. most of our kitchen scrap, except for meat scraps and thise with oil, goes into the compost sack. since its semi-porous, fluid drains oit naturally. to prevent material from drying out, i placed it in a cool, shaded area and fold and clip the top. i also made sure to add some moisture now and then. my firat attempt took about four months to fully breakdown. i alao picked off any earthworms i found nearby and plopped them inside 😊. the end product was a beautiful, dark material that smelled so earthy. it was so cool to think that a few months ago this was food scraps and dried leaves.
as of now, our tree was cut down and i only have used paper bags for carbon. let’s see if it will work as well and how long it will take for these materials to break down.

[Braedenfish]

Great vid! So many people BUY compost each spring when it is very easy to make your own.Every fall we gather leaves horse manure food waste and place in garden beds for next Springs flower planting. Plus since
30 miles south of DC in country city fam visit they bring frozen food waste and in Summer they pick free flower💐🌷🌷🌷

[AasthaHingar]

I absolutely appreciate the idea the of composting and I would love to compost my own food as well but I am scared of worms so I don't think I can do that.

[seeksustainablejapan]

This is awesome- I’ve never heard of non-government groups collecting scraps for a business- how fantastic! There is very little composting that goes on in Japan outside of the zero-waste town of Kamikatsu where it’s compulsory to all residents (great!) I compost our kitchen waste & it’s reduced our garbage by 50% so imagine if everyone did it! Thanks for sharing!

[karenadams]

I compost using trash cans with holes drilled into them. Working on my 2nd can!

[AshleyC]

Love this! I’m glad I came across this video, after I watched it, I googled a compost drop off in my city & I think I’ll start using it!