Compost for Beginners

In a country where somewhere just under forty percent of the food we grow is wasted it is important to consider how as an individual you can begin to reduce this number. Also keep in mind that as college and university students we are on average producing close to 640 pounds of trash annually. This can only mean that as students we are particularly careless about waste. According to The Washington Post reducing food waste and creating better practices is seen as one of the best methods to resolve the current climate crisis. By composting we can reduce nearly 70 billion tons of greenhouse gasses being emitted into our atmosphere. Considering all this I asked myself, where do I come in. I noticed that in my apartment we were taking out the trash daily, and we were absolutely contributing to this generational problem we face. So to avoid filling our trash with paper towels and food scraps I got my roommates involved with the compost collected by the Ithaca College Ecoreps here on campu...