Compost

This lab was designed in order to answer the question: How do increased/varying amounts of yeast affect the CO2 levels of decomposing apple? Introduction: This experiment tests the effect of varying amounts of a decomposer on CO2 outputs of compost. Atmospheric CO2 levels are increasing at an exponential rate, and have been past the upper safety limit of 350 parts per million since 1988 (3). This September the ppm was 397.64, continuing on the upward…

Every year Americans throw out 160 billion dollars in food.That’s about 438,356,164 dollars every day.This is a detrimental issue and needs to be changed. Americans throw away excess food everyday and this can be changed by selling “ugly” produce, composting, and feeding the homeless and poor with the food. In America more than 80% of produce doesn’t make it to the shelves because it does not meet cosmetic standards or is close to expiration. Bay Area’s Imperfect Produce will send you a box of…

Prepare the compost. Create a raised bed with a dimension of four feet long, four feet wide, and eight inches deep. Then fill the bed with compost and well-seasoned manure. Follow it up by covering the bed with a cardboard and a black plastic. This creates a solar radiation that helps sterilize the soil. Leave it for at least two weeks. 3. Plant your mushroom spores. After two weeks, remove the cardboard and plastic covering. Scatter a one-inch layer of mushroom spores on the compost and…

Farming refers to the activity of someone growing plants or crops from the ground. However, did you know there are different methods of farming? Today, two types of farming practices are used in agriculture, and they are organic and conventional farming. These two farming methods have been under constant debate, says New York Times journalist, Kenneth Chang (2012). For those that support organic farming, they believe that the using of natural fertilizers and no pesticides and genetically…

admit we cant hardly get rid of it , and now we can fix a big part of this problem by just composting in our school. Composting is the more reasonable thing to do, mostly because throwing all of our trash in one place is wrong. Schools don't want to compost because they think its to much trouble, and not many people want to do that type of work. On the other hand people are saying that land fills are getting at capacity with trash from the neighboring schools. My opinion is that people need to…

get one bin for each of the following ( compost, plastic and paper, and landfill) this way we could reduce the amount of recyclabe stuff we throw away. Although this plan is a expensive at first it pays off in the end, the city can use the compost for the gardens which is…

Cheap sheds in Orrell are a great storage space for all your garden tools, potting soil and compost. If you are an avid gardener and like nothing better than pottering in your vegetable garden on a Saturday afternoon, you will most likely want a safe storage space for all your gardening equipment. Keeping garden tools in the garage can take up space, and the smell of the compost and potting soil can smell a bit strong when it is mixed with odour of mechanics. In Orrell, cheap sheds are on offer…

Recycling- An Important Part of the Solution As a young child, I always hated the smell of garbage from the local landfill. The average American discards an average seven and a half pounds of garbage every day, unfortunately most of this garbage goes into to landfills. Although America’s recycling rate has doubled over the past 15 years, it has occurred in the absence of a federal law on recycling. Instead, state legislation and local support have been leading the action. Recently stricter…

be a more attractive alternative to traditional methods of corpse disposal and could still help others. For instance, if one opts to convert their cadaver into human compost, their body goes through the relatively tame process of being frozen in liquid nitrogen, shattered by waves or vibrations, and then freeze-dried into a compost that can feed a memorial plant. When one considers the horrific effects that traditional forms of disposal such as decay and cremation can have on the cadaver, the…

Hamlet’s first soliloquy is an example of Shakespeare’s motif of garden imagery and a theme of corruption in the play. In this passage, Hamlet is talking to himself after the Queen and Claudius ask why he is acting so strangely. He goes on to lament that suicide is against God’s law, then describes his life as “an unweeded garden / that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature / possess it merely” (1.2.135-137). I believe Shakespeare writes Hamlet comparing his life to a garden full of…