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Not Waste Composting makes its debut in Birmingham Story, Photos and Art By Claire Pool
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ome might argue going green and being more environmentally conscious became a more mainstream idea in the last five years. As issues like the “save the turtles” initiative and metal straws became trendy, many people started to really think about what kind of impact they have on the Earth.
take North America by storm. Being more sustainable through acts as simple as conserving water by taking shorter showers or by buying your vegetables from local farmers can help our earth in so many ways. But one of the main ways we’ve learned to help the environment is by composting and keeping certain items out of landfills.
In more recent years, the act of composting, buying bulk soaps and detergent, and changing from single-use plastic and paper to more green options has begun to
When food scraps go into landfills, they generate methane, a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 84 times greater than carbon dioxide. Because the food
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