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Compost Awareness Week
Compost Awareness Week 4 to 9 May 2015
With 2015 also being the International Year of Soils there is no better time to get composting at home and transform your organic waste into a valuable resource for your garden. The theme for this year is ‘Life inside your compost heap’ - your heap is a hotbed of biological activity. Increased awareness of the key role of healthy soils in supporting human, animal and plant life is essential if we are to stop the decline in soil availability and quality and achieve levels of food production necessary to meet future population levels.
Composters are aware of the importance of peat to biodiversity and as a store
of terrestrial carbon but in general soil receives less attention than above-ground biodiversity; it is actually the reservoir
for at least a quarter of global biodiversity. Recent floods due to changing weather have illustrated the role
in providing resilience
First entry received from Bob Keene, Maidenhead
to flooding as well as to the supply of clean water. The maintenance or enhancement of global soil resources is essential if
humanity’s need for food, water, and energy security is to be met.
We can all work to improve those areas of soil for which
we have control and home composting
Gary Hartley Eastleigh, Hamps.
is one way in which we can maintain and protect it. International compost awareness week provides a means by which we can increase awareness.
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