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    compost preparation, which takes some time before you actually start sowing seeds. These are as follows. 1) Aerobic Composting- 2) Anaerobic Composting 3) Vermi-Compost (worm castings) 4) Bokashi Composting 1) Aerobic composting The vegetable and fruit scrap generated in the kitchen like the veg peels, uncooked raw wastage can be used to make compost for plants through Aerobic Composting. In this process the microorganisms which require oxygen to survive

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    food scraps and can eat over half their body weight in organic matter every day. There are vermicomposting businesses in California making compost from the food waste they receive from restaurants and other industries. You can also vermicompost at home, school, and even the office on a smaller

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    Food Waste In Food

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    of date items. Overcooking and not being willing to throw those extra portions in the freezer are common mistakes made in the kitchen. There are several causes of food waste, as Americans we can cut a portion of that down and enrich the soil by composting. Most people might not consider the process of getting the food they consume from the farm to the dinner table. There is a large amount of product that is lost during this operation. According to an article from the Natural Resource Defense Council

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    Food Waste Essay

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    would be to have a local system implement composting. Universities everywhere have a lot of power when it comes to influencing their students. This paper will look at implementing a composting policy on Michigan State University’s (MSU) Campus. Michigan State University is the leading agriculture university, yet it has around 14,000 pounds of food waste everyday (Reducing Food Waste in MSU’s Dining Halls). If Universities, like MSU, began implementing composting, it would become a social norm for many

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    all restaurants and food services participate in a composting program. Having an effective composting program would help reduce solid waste disposal fees and

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    Aerobic process, also called Composting, is a natural process that rot or decompose organic matter by microorganisms under some controlled conditions. When raw organic materials like crop residues, animal wastes, food wastes, some municipal wastes and suitable industrial wastes having undergone composting, can make them become more suitable to apply to the soil as a fertilizing resource. Aerobic composting occurs in the presence of abundant oxygen. In this procedure, aerobic microorganisms

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    should be given information on composting in order for them to know the positive effects. When students get to college, they are no longer under parental super vision. They do not have an authority figure telling them how to sort their trash. Students are able to think for themselves and make their own decisions. College is the perfect situation for students to change the way they thing about throwing away their trash. Students may not have thought about composting as an option because they were

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    First, I think that we should be composting for area school and all around use. But some would disagree around having composting in the school.There are different reasons why we should have those types of things in grade school, middle school and even high school. It could help with making this easier on everyone and not always having waist time on each day and this could also me could just being use just being in the house hold and your having to be a stay home mother and cooking a lot of food for

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    Compost Essay

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    I think that our community should have composting bins so that we could start composting in our own community. It would be very good for our community because it is less harmful than some other options. Other options would not make as great of an impact because when someone composts, they are recycling what they have used and can reuse that once it is decomposed. Composting is an inexpensive, natural process that transforms your kitchen and garden waste into a valuable and nutrient rich food for

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    In a perfect world, all entities that handle food (restaurants, homes, grocery stores, etc.) would compost their leftovers, but in reality, it is difficult or even impossible to push regulations on all of these sources of food waste. Schools, however, are already overseen by the local government so they are much easier

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