compost piles
Garden waste mounds
Compost piles are heaps of organic matter—food scraps, yard waste, leaves—left to decompose into nutrient-rich soil amendment.
The pile generates heat as microorganisms break down the material: Turn the compost pile to speed decomposition.
Backyard composting typically uses bins or freestanding piles that gardeners tend over weeks or months.
- decomposeBreak into simpler parts
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- rotten smellOdor of decomposition
- wormsLimbless burrowing invertebrates
- worm castingsEarthworm digestive output
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- community gardenscommunity gardens, raised beds, tool shed, garden clubs, herb gardens
- habitat creationhabitat restoration, nest boxes, bat houses, bee hotels, insect hotels
- bioremediationbiodegradation, oil spill cleanup
- bananasbananas, banana, plantain, plantains, banana leaves
- Biodynamicscow horns, preparations, cow horn, life forces, stirring
compost pileslandfills
Engineered waste disposal sites
garbage dumps · incinerators · burn pits · trash compactors · ocean dumping
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Origins of environmental contamination
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