What is organic waste

Caring for the environment is one of the priorities that man should take into account if he wants it to be favorable for his growth and development. There is a wide variety of the waste that is thrown in the trash and many of them can be recycled in a favorable way, hence the importance of raising awareness about recycling.

One of these wastes is organic waste, have you heard of it before? Well, the safest thing is that yes, since it is what is most used to make another very beneficial product for gardening. In the following article, we will explain what organic waste is, what waste falls into the respective group and what we can convert it to obtain benefits from it.

WHAT IS ORGANIC WASTE?

Organic waste is all that waste that can be decomposed naturally and form part of the life cycle, that is, all that waste of both vegetable and animal origin, which degrades biologically quickly and naturally. These are usually the remains of food and cooking, handling, or processing products.  

This food waste is considered organic waste: remains of nuts, skins, fruits, vegetables, eggshells, fish bones, shellfish, spoiled food, leftover bread, coffee filters. Tea and bones. As well as yard waste, such as leaves, grass, dirt, branches, or logs.

WHAT TO DO WITH ORGANIC WASTE?

With this organic waste, you can make compost, which is a product that is used to fertilize and even to generate non-polluting energy in the form of biowaste. Compost is very easy to make, just by burying that waste or enclosing it in compost bins, the process is facilitated.

With this organic waste transformed into compost, orchards or gardens are fed, as well as avoiding bad odors due to its decomposition. And its use has become very common these days for those who want to have a garden at home and minimize the cost of fertilizers in addition to nourishing the plants naturally.

WHAT WASTE OR ITEMS IS CONSIDERED ORGANIC WASTE?

Organic waste is made up of waste of biological origin, that is, it comes from a living being or is the rest of it, what is more, it is produced while cooking in all of them. Although there are also others, some examples are:

• Leftover vegetables and fruits.
• Seeds
• Used oil.
• Bones
• decomposing milk.
• Fallen leaves or branches of plants or trees.
• Animal excrement.
• Natural fiber fabric such as linen, paper, and cardboard.
• The body remains of living beings such as hair, nails, feathers, and others.

HOW LONG DOES ORGANIC WASTE TAKE TO BREAK DOWN?

Waste from organic waste takes a short time to degrade, everything will depend on its origin, some examples of them are:

• Banana peels from 2 to 10 days. For its part,
• The role a 1 year
• Cellulose one year.

For this reason, many of the food residues are used in the production of compost.

HOW TO SEPARATE ORGANIC FROM INORGANIC WASTE?

As we know, organic waste is mostly food remains, while inorganic waste is produced by industries and its degradation process is greater. Therefore it is important to separate them and for this, you can avail yourself of the use of special containers as well as special bags too, when you have it you can follow the following steps:

• Allocate one container only for organic waste and another for inorganic.
• If you want to recycle inorganic waste you can then separate it into containers such as:
• Newspaper and paper.
• Aluminum cans.
• PET containers.
• Paperboard.
• Glass.
• Sanitary waste such as toilet paper, tissues, cotton, disposable diapers, and sanitary towels.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING ORGANIC WASTE?  

The organic waste provides the following benefits after use:

• Saving resources and improving soils: with compost, organic fertilizer is created for plants, and it is used both in agriculture and in personal gardening. Soils become more fertile, retain more water and nutrients.
• Improvement of air and water quality: with compost, the waste is not burned and this allows the reduction of odors caused by gases when incinerated. Since in these places, when burned, dioxin and furans are expelled, which pollutes the air.
• Reduces the emission of greenhouse gases: the places where garbage is burned or dumped produce gases such as methane CH4 and oxygen dioxide CO2, in large quantities and these cause global warming. When organic waste is used, they are reduced.

HOW TO COMPOST ORGANIC WASTE?

These are the steps to follow to make homemade compost in a simple way:

• Have a container to compost, a compost bucket, or reuse something you already have, such as a fruit box, construction pallets, where you will collect food scraps.
• Collect eggshells, fruit peels, vegetables, twigs, fresh straw, wet grass with them you will have sugar, cellulose, and nitrogen for fertilizer.
• So that a bad smell does not come out of the food remains, intersperse the wet remains with the dry remains, as well as ventilate the compost from time to time.  
• Finally, you can use it in pots made of clay, cement, or wood, so that the plants grow healthy and strong.

WHERE TO BUY UTENSILS TO USE ORGANIC WASTE?

To process organic waste, there are a number of easy-to-use materials that you can get in supermarkets and stores, and even though the internet you can buy them, at a good price and they are of good quality. In addition, you can take advantage of the fact that many of the online stores take the orders home, which will arrive as soon as you expect it, with just one click.