Tag: sustainability
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Tips to Reduce Food Waste
According to the USDA, 31% of food is wasted on a retail and consumer level. This can be damaging to the environment and economy as it wastes land, water, labor, and energy required to produce this food. Most Americans are unaware of why this is so harmful to the environment. Intuitively, food breaks back down…
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Types of Compost Bins
In one of my most recent posts I discussed How to Compost in Your Backyard and recommended finding a bin that works best for you. We all live on different types of properties and live different lives. In order to have a successful composting experience, we need to find what bins work best for us.…
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What Can you Compost? Compostable Materials list
Everyone is always asking me what you can throw in your compost. I’ve heard crazy things like “you can’t compost orange peels” to “you can compost human feces”. So, what can you compost? I put this simple, easy compostable materials list that is perfect for beginners. Compostable Materials List The general things that you can…
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Why Compost? The Benefits of Composting
It seems that more and more people are talking about composting in an effort to help the environment. But helping the environment is just one of the many benefits of composting. Over the decades we’ve adopted a consumerist lifestyle. We seem to throw away things as soon as we obtain them. And although some of…
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A Simple Guide to Apartment Composting
In some of my recent posts I talked about Why You Should Compost, Backyard Composting: How to Start a Compost Pile, and Types of Compost bins. But a lot of my readers live in urban areas and want to learn more about apartment composting. To make things easy for you, I put together this simple…
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Backyard Composting: How to Start a Compost Pile
Composting has great benefits from helping our wallets to helping our environment. It’s also ridiculously easy and rewarding. If you’re a suburban folk, keep reading to learn How to Start a Compost Pile In Your Backyard. But before we start learning about how to start a compost bin, do you live in a city or…
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How to Reduce Your Food Waste in 2019
If there’s anything that I’ve learned in this past year it’s that we produce so much unnecessary waste that contributes to a bigger deficit in our wallets and a bigger carbon footprint. We often think that ‘food waste’ can solely be reduced by “cleaning your plate”, but there is so much more waste produced from…