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| COMPOST BENEFITS |
Pollution remediation
- Absorbs odors and degrades volatile organic compounds.
- Binds heavy metals and prevents them from migrating to water resources or being absorbed by plants.
- Degrades and, in some cases, completely eliminates wood preservatives, petroleum products, pesticides, and both chlorinated and non chlorinated hydrocarbons in contaminated soils.
Pollution prevention
- Composting requires solid waste as its raw material, thus provides answer to solid waste disposal question faced by city district governments of Pakistan.
- Avoids methane production and leachate formation in landfills by diverting organics for composting.
- Absorbs odors and degrades volatile organic compounds. Prevents pollutants in storm water runoff from reaching water resources, and protects groundwater quality.
- Prevents erosion and turf loss on roadsides, hillsides, playing fields, and golf courses.
- Minimizes odors from agricultural areas.
- Composting raw manure can minimize any potential environmental or nuisance problems. Raw manure is one of the primary culprits in the pollution of waterways, and odor from farms is considered an increasing problem in the rural areas..
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