How is Organic Waste Converted Into Compost?
Organic waste, such as eggshells, fruits and vegetables, flowers and plants, dairy products, meat, poultry and seafood, paper products, milk cartons, tea bags, and coffee grounds can be degraded by microorganisms and other living organisms via composting or digestion. This breakdown of organic matter into carbon dioxide, water, methane, or other simple molecules results in things like fertilizers, soil, and even energy production. While landfills produce methane gas when organic waste is disposed there through anaerobic decomposition; this process is…