How to compost kitchen waste?

Composting is the decomposition of organic materials such as leaves and food leftovers into the soil. It’s a terrific method to recycle yard and kitchen scraps while also enriching the soil in your garden, enhancing water retention, and preventing erosion.

What is Composting

Compost is an organic material that can be added to soil to aid plant growth.

To make it, you collect natural items that would otherwise be thrown away, such as food scraps, leaves, and yard trimmings, and allow them to degrade over time.

The benefit of compositing:

1. Composting allows you to recycle kitchen trash rather than throwing them away, reducing food waste and lowering your carbon footprint.
2. Compost aids in the retention of moisture and nutrients in the soil. By loosening up compacted soil, it also avoids erosion.
3. Compost, unlike many synthetic fertilizers, is chemical-free and provides organic material to your soil.

Composting kitchen waste is as easy as burying food scraps in the ground or utilizing a three-stage composting container or tumbler.

The ultimate product is nutrient-dense soil additives that improve porosity and help the soil retain moisture.

It is beneficial to reduce the size of compostable objects to no more than an inch cubed. Smaller bits decompose more quickly. Meats and dairy goods are the slowest-moving items.

Steps of compositing

1. Composting can be done anywhere, including your kitchen, balcony, terrace, or roof, as well as on a countertop or in a sink.
2. Put your edible kitchen waste in a container (vegetable peels, fruit peels, tiny portions of wasted cooked food).
3. Fill a second container with dry garbage such as dried leaves, sawdust, newspaper shards, packing detritus, and so on. Close both containers tightly to keep pests, flies, and worms out.
4. Choose a container, which might range from a bucket to a regular trash can or a flower pot. Drill 4-5 holes around the container at various levels to allow air to flow freely.
5. Add a layer of soil to the bottom.
6. Begin layering food trash by alternating wet and dry waste (food scraps, vegetable and fruit peels) (straw, sawdust, dried leaves).
7. To help maintain moisture and heat, cover this container with a plastic sheet or a board of wood.
8. Use a rake to give the pile a brief turn every few days to provide aeration. If the pile appears to be excessively dry, add some water to moisten it.
9. Within 2 to 3 months, your pile should begin to produce compost that is dry, dark brown, crumbly, and earthy smelling.

What should not to compost

1. Pesticides or preservatives have been used on plants or wood
2. Debris from a Black Walnut Tree.
3. Plants that are diseased or infested with insects.
4. Meat and Fish Scraps
5. Dairy, Fats, and Oils.
6. Charcoal Ash.
7. Dog or Cat Waste.