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With each passing year the landfills all across the nation are overflowing and the cost of disposing of both garbage and sewage is constantly rising. Efforts to recycle organic waste have brought relief to these concerns in many municipalities.

Organic home composting can also help farmers to have better and healthier soil for organic farming and kitchen waste operations and can also help to prevent a common problem of drinking water contamination.

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According to researchers, large cities and substantial animal-raising facilities end up wasting tons and tons of natural resources every day, while polluting lakes, rivers and oceans when they allow their organic refuse, manure and sewage to be discarded.

Experts say that a much better use of this material is to regard it as what it really is, a form of wealth that is being squandered. This waste of significant natural resources can be tapped into with proper organic recycling efforts.

Rather than expending large amounts of money in the handling, treating, transporting and storing of organic waste, the experts claim that these funds could be put to better use by focusing on organic waste recycling. This approach has the possibility of turning a major expense into a new income source for many municipalities while also serving to improve the environment.

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A recent report that studied the issue noted that landfills are nearing capacity in many countries around the globe and that the organic waste material that is simply allowed to rot ends up releasing methane gasses into the environment and leaching acids into groundwater systems.

The report also indicated that there are 13 US states that are expected to be completely out of landfill capacity in ten years or less, which means that recycling options must be seriously considered.

One researcher pointed out that municipalities in all industrialized nations spend massive amounts of taxpayers’ money to get rid of valuable organic nutrients. This is a bad habit. He goes on to say that with some careful thought and a changed perspective on recycling organic garden programs, these cities could readily turn their organic waste into a revenue steam that would benefit the environment and significantly relieve the taxpayers’ burden.

The technology and the systems are already available, and are in use in many other areas. In the province of Tanum, Sweden, a low-water consumption composting toilet system has been instituted.

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This system uses only one seventh the amount of water that is used in traditional flush toilet systems and also eliminates the maintenance of extensive sewage systems and treatments plants. In addition, this method of recycling waste converts the organic sewage and garbage into viable compost products that are both usable and suitable for selling.

Estimates state that this method of using waste could supply as much as fifteen percent of the needed nutrients for the treatment of soil that is currently provided through other fertilization sources. The experts estimate that a savings of as much as 15% can be realized because of a reduction in the reliance on other types of fertilizers.

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