How does composting work?
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Make two wooden structures, size depends on how much ground you have and how much material you will have to compost.  If you can get horse manure or cow dung, put a small amount at the base, add almost anything to the second layer, then a layer of soil. Do not disturb it.  Continue until it reaches the top of the structure you made.  Leave that one and start on the second.  It will take you probably a year before you can use the first by which time the second will be 'cooked' and ready.  Do not use rhubarb leaves. Do not use rose cuttings.  Use paper, cardboard, old cabbages including roots, all garden waste, kitchen waste but not including meats. Beware of silver paper and the tape on cardboard.  Everything else goes in.  It will generate heat but do not worry, it will not cause fire.  Don't forget the layers, each about six inches high. It will seem that the structure never fills but that's the break down taking effect.  Hope it helps, good luck.  ps.  If you have snakes in your area, they like to nest in compost heaps and curiously enough, depending on whether the female snake wants males or females, depends on where she lays her eggs!
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Fungus is an important element in the decaying process.Fungus with the right moisture and temperature helps to break down organic matter into micro nutrients and these nutrients supply other organisms with nourishment . Fungus also produce other chemical compounds that can be used as medicine ,plus some fungus can be used for food.
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It's a huge pit where cities take their garbage.  They line the pit with clay or plastic to stop toxic chemicals from leaking into the soil.  They run the garbage over with bulldozers to compress it as much as possible.  And when it is full (it usually takes years or decades to fill up), they cover it with plastic and then dirt and sometimes vegetation.  A landfill is a way to efficiently bury huge amounts of garbage without impacting the environment.
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Using filters to get those waste disposal. \nAfter, those filters full of toxic products are sent to special tratment. Sometimes to be recycled or usually being through somewhere that will be classified as a dangerous place.
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Typically sewage goes down into the pipes below your house/apartment and then those pipes join in with the main city sewer lines. Collectively, then the sewage goes to the treatment plant where it's treated, sorted into fertilizer, and then sent back into a stream/creek/wastewater receptical of some sort.\n\nIt can be dangerous to have a septic tank, as they are likely to leach nitrogen into the soils which cause environmental dangers.\n\nIt can be made safer if people are aware not to dump toxic chemicals into toilets/sinks.
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2 piles of compost. Why do you need a phylo-thing to answer
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but i think chemical NPK fertilizer will perform better since they can consist higher composition of nutrients and may relase nutrient faster than organic manure. \nhowever organic manure can be turn into compost and it also supply nutrients but not as much as chemical fertizer. organic manure has some advantage as compared with chemical fertilizer which they are slow release and may help to increase the soil quality (increase soil pH, proper soil structure.....)\ntry make some literature from soil science or soil fertility books can help you better.
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They get nutrients from the soil.  Keep them in moist garden dirt.\n\nIf you are trying to keep them alive for a long time, you probably need to know why kind they are (i.e., Canadian, European) in order to know what temperature to keep them, and what kind of plant to mix in the soil.
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biomass, bugs & water - when biological materials are mixed with microbes and water, the microbes will "eat" the biological material and release bio-gas.  If the microbes are anaerobic, you must prevent air from getting into the system.  If they are aerobic microbes, you may need to aerate the system.
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Hope this site helps before you go further.\n\n"... Mushroom farming consists of six steps, and although the divisions are somewhat arbitrary, these steps identify what is needed to form a production system. \n\nThe six steps are Phase I composting, Phase II composting, spawning, casing, pinning, and cropping. These steps are described in their naturally occurring sequence, emphasizing the salient features within each step. Compost provides nutrients needed for mushrooms to grow. Two types of material are generally used for mushroom compost, the most used and least expensive being wheat straw-bedded horse manure. Synthetic compost is usually made from hay and crushed corn cobs, although the term often refers to any mushroom compost where the prime ingredient is not horse manure. Both types of compost require the addition of nitrogen supplements and a conditioning agent, gypsum..."
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They are creating energy.  I assume that you are talking about those clocks that you plug into the potatoe.\n\nTHe answer is that the potatoe is slowely rotting (its not rotten yet, just starting inside).  Every vegetable and meat, even when fresh, is starting to degrade like this.\n\nAnd this creates heat and energy. Thats why compost piles smoke a little or steam.
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Equipment you use, materials you throw out.  Think of a bulldozer (equipment) pushing dirt (material).  You keep the bulldozer and get rid of the dirt.\n\nGood luck.
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Stop buying fertilizer! There are solutions that work as good and are free or quite cheap. \n\nCompost is a super duper way to fertilize and it's free with a big bonus. You can take all of your kitchen scraps (veggie) and yard waste and throw it all in your compost pile. You save on trash by no longer having to bag it all up and don't forget that most of your cardboard and newspapers can be composted too.  One way to keep your lawn healthy or anything I guess is to make compost tea then just put it on your lawn.  After the compost is done, mixing it into your soil will make a extremely powerful dirt. my father once put a single tomato seed into a compost pile and ended up with literally hundreds of tomato's. Enough 'bout that.\n\nNature has provided us with many solutions, however they need time and work. No wonder we think it's easier to just go out and buy things that are all ready to go. I come from the idea that we need to just look around us and use what we already have. Long after the worlds supply of fossil fuels are gone, nature will still be providing solutions for us.
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its simplebut very logical.u can eat what ever u wanttill ur stomach gets filled but more more u try to dumpthe stuff the result    .......................u might fall downthe weather.\ntoo much is always bad.&goes mearewaste
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One step at a time. Recycle. Compost.  Talk to your friends about it.  Small steps lead to bigger steps.
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>>>>>where do plants get carbon from?\n\nPlants obtain their carbon directly  from the air in the form of carbon dioxide.\n\n>>>>where does the carbon go when plants die?\n\nThat depends entirely on what happens after the plant dies. In a natural forest most of the plant is eaten by animals and fungi. The carbon becomes a part of the animal and fungal body for a while. Some of it will end up back in the air as a result of the animals breating it out as carbon dioxide, some of it will remain in the soil as humus and soil carbon.\n\nFire will tend to short circuit that process and convert most of the carbon into carbon dioxide. however some wil remain behind in the ground as charcoal.\n\nIn a managed forest the carbon wil be largely taken away as timber. That carbon will be stored as furniture or buildings or paper. Then it will most likely be dumoped in a landfill and covered with soil. Once ther some of it will find its way back into the air as methane but most of it it will sit under the ground and gradually convert to coal.
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It is a waste of food... some of the food goes back to the vendors (like bread, potato chips, etc) where they try to resell it in outlet stores, or they donate it to charities.\n\nHigh spoilage foods such as milk, meat and perishables go into the trash ...meats are put down a disposal. Sometimes, tallow (grease) companies and farmers are contracted to pick up the spoiled produce to be recycled into fertilizer or fed as pig slop.\n\nBoxed foods are destroyed in a compactor and the store gets credit for disposing of them.