There are many good reasons to There are many good reasons to compost. Saves you money and resources, improves your soil and reduces your impact on the environment via less waste entering our local landfills. Food waste (20%) and other compostable organic material (10%) makeup more than 30% of waste materials headed to landfills in Iowa. Food waste in particular breaks down very rapidly, upon decomposition methane is released directly into the atmosphere through vents in the landfill. Methane is more than 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a warming greenhouse gas.

Composting is easy to do and has loads of benefits. By mixing your food scraps with an equal part of brown organics (leaves, dried grass, etc.) rich compost is created. Using compost on your yard, garden and flowers returns valuable nutrients to help recharge and maintain soil quality and fertility, along with naturally fertilizing plants replacing the need of harmful chemicals. We know you already have the food scraps, so order your choice of compost bin today and get to composting!

Please refer to this Waste Trac website for more information about back yard composting:

Want to learn more? Check out this cool video from the nonprofit organization “Kiss the Ground”: 

“In the 2017 Iowa Waste Characterization Study (Iowa DNR) it was discovered that 20% of what we fill our garbage trucks with in the Hawkeye State is food waste. The amount of food waste (whether it be peels & rinds, food gone bad in the refrigerator, or packaged goods) headed to Iowa landfills increased by 50% since the 2011 characterization study. The Waste Trac Education Team encourages Cedar Valley residents to visualize their banana peels and watermelon rinds not as garbage, but as valuable resources that can be incorporated into a backyard compost system, minimizing the amount of organic materials headed to the local landfill.”