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Cheap Compost Bins For The Home

Composting is an easy way to practice good stewardship of the earth and control garbage odors inside your home. It is one of the lowest hanging fruits in the sustainability, carbon sequestration conversation, as well as a simple way to build up the carbon banks of the earth. In this article, we'll discuss the basics of composting, and introduce you to a few different ways to compost, followed by links to products that you might find useful. Later in this article we'll discuss what can be composted easily, and what should be kept separate from your compost. For the sake of simplicity, we will focus on cool composting and composting with worms. Hot composting, ie creating a compost environment that gives off so much heat during the decomposition process that it will literally steam on a cold morning is the fastest way to convert organic matter into compost. It's also a little bit more sophisticated than digging a hole in the ground and filling it with potato skins. So we'