I'm Stephanie Safarian and this is episode 81.

You are listening to the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a show about living simply and sustainably with your family.

Here's your host, Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there and welcome back.

On today's show, we are tackling all things composting.

There are an awful lot of misconceptions about composting out there.

I've heard it said that composting is smelly, it's not if you're doing it right,

or that it's dirty, it's not if you have the right tools. I've also heard that composting

requires bugs. Now this one may be true. My compost pile does have flies but personally I have a very low tolerance for bugs and the flies don't bother even me

so bugs should not be a deterrent. We're getting into all these misconceptions today as well as the exact questions you've

written to me because the truth of the matter is that composting is just as easy as recycling.

Now recycling is easy, right?

You separate your plastics and your cans from your trash

without a second thought.

It's second nature. The same goes for composting because composting at its

most fundamental state is simply a third sort of your trash. If you are listening right now and are thinking to yourself, well, I don't

want humus, I don't want the end product, I don't garden, and I have a garbage disposal to get rid of my food waste so why on earth

would I need to compost? Know that garbage disposals are not a solution to the waste problem. And that's because all that food that's going

into your garbage disposal and your neighbor's garbage disposals puts excess

strain on wastewater treatment centers.

All the food solids that arrive at the treatment center

then need to be filtered out.

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