How compost helps the Earth

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Composting is more than just old food, it’s a way to produce the nutrients that our earth needs. When plants decompose they produce a protein called glomalin, which is something that few people know about but that is extremely valuable to the earth.

Glomalin is a substance that acts like glue by holding the soil together to allow for air and water to flow to the root systems of plants. It also converts what has been dry dust into living soil with microorganisms. Of greatest importance is glomalin's ability to store carbon in the ground for thousands of years without allowing it to re enter the atmosphere.

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This is how the cycle works. You add compost to the soil, the fungi and bacteria consume the compost and then the fungi produce glomalin. The more glomalin produced, the more carbon stored in the soil and the more life that will develop in the soil.

Carbon capture has been considered as a new technology that should be developed, but in reality, the technology that we need is just a pile of leaves and food scraps in your backyard. For so many years, fungi have been doing this work, but because of all the chemicals today and paved areas preventing them from doing so, composting allows us to give the fungi back the opportunity to do their job.

Your compost bin is actually a good way to make the world a better place. If enough people do this, it will add a great amount of the compost pile to the overall amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere and put back into the earth. The planet doesn’t need any more talk, it needs more compost piles and that's out responsibility right?

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