Composting
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There is yet another way to go green right in your own backyard. The New Hanover County Soil and Water Conservation Office is holding a compost bin and rain barrel sale.
Rain barrels cut down on water usage to help save the environment and save money. They are placed underneath your gutter and collect rain water that can be used again to wash your car or water your yard.
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NYCLeaves: Project LeafDrop is a new - and growing - coalition of community gardeners and greening partners in New York City looking to put fallen leaves to good use, since the City will not be collecting for compost this year. This group will be coordinating leaf compost events from November 7th-22nd at gardens citywide (18 in Brooklyn so far!), where neighbors can bring bags of residential leaves, diverting them from environmentally costly...
From onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com
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- Bio-Tec Environmental and Concept Amenities Collaborate in Creating... (businesswire.com)
- Mandatory Composting Begins Wednesday (sfist.com)
- San Francisco starts mandatory composting this week (lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu)
The leaves are dropping off the trees, and the trees are taking on their winter look. Yuck! Time to rake the leaves.
Speaking of leaves, I was telling you about composting the leaves in your yard. If you mix some of the grass clippings in with the leaves, it greatly speeds up the composting process. If you think forward to spring, you have lots of grass clippings, but very few leaves to mix in to help speed up the composting process. This fall...
From newburyportnews.com
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- Save Earth by organic chemistry, composting (news.google.com)
In Oak Park, Villa Park and Naperville, students begin putting their food scraps in compost bins
When they're done with lunch, students at an Oak Park school sort uneaten morsels into bins -- empty milk cartons and juice boxes into one receptacle, orange rinds and banana peels into another, and anything non-recyclable into a third, that one clearly...
From chicagotribune.com
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- Oak Park students begin composting leftovers (chicagotribune.com)
- Composting at schools: Students get into the act (search.live.com)
Horse manure needs to be 'cooked' for a specific length of time and at high enough temperatures to result in sufficient reductions in viability of roundworm (Parascaris equorum) eggs and Rhodococcus equi populations, report French researchers.
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