When you contribute to separate waste reuse and recycling of organic and inorganic waste, which helps reduce environmental impact significantly, as less waste is directed to landfills.
When you throw trash without separating it causes the waste of the waste to be sent directly to landfills. This causes public health risks and environmental degradation, as the leachate * drained by the lower layers, and sometimes seep into the ground, which contaminates water and soils near the landfill (Restrepo et al, 1991). Thinking
the environmental impact of our actions, the Association of Settlers of Bellavista, since 2008, opted to convert organic waste into compost, which is used as organic fertilizer inside the neighborhood, contributing to higher quality breathe air, reducing water pollution, soil and subsoil.
Benefits of compost:
• Contribute to the exchange of nutrients and moisture,
• Serves fertilizer,
• Acts as pH level,
• Create conditions for healthy living microorganisms in soil and is a shelter for earthworms and beneficial fungi that attack soil pests,
• It is the form of recycling that provides fertility, health and life by returning the materials to where they came from (Vento, 2000)
What can you do to help the environment from your home?
Separate garbage in different bags (preferably biodegradable):
a) bag fruit, coffee, vegetables and eggshells. These will be used to make compost in our Area designated for such purpose in Bellavista.
b) bag organic waste such as meat, sauces, creams, pasta, bones, etc.
c) inorganic garbage bag in general.
d) Throw bag medium without cardboard, glass, plastic containers with lids and cans. (Rinse containers before disposal)
Tip: Tetra pack containers can be delivered to Super for reuse or recycling after use.
You can also do away something useful!
Additional benefits:
Even with the short lifetime of the compost area, and has been modified to be an ecological corridor since it has built a home garden, with fruit trees and a nursery. Of course, using the fertilizer processing.
* Liquid solid waste filtering potentially harmful content.
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