Composting in Copenhagen: Soil is the Solution

This week the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is bringing light to some of the lesser known strategies needed to address climate change. Composting is getting some well deserved attention.

Snow melting on compost.

The Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) brings to Copenhagen their opinion that the “way to solve the climate change problems caused by humanity is to recapture carbon in the soils of the earth. This can be accomplished by returning all organic waste to the soil as compost.” As they say, soil is the solution.

Many of the strategies to address climate change require complex agreements at the national level, which largely exclude direct involvement by citizens. Composting, on the other hand, can be done by anyone anywhere. Even apartment dwellers can use enclosed systems to make compost. This is one of the solutions we can truly take into our own hands.

The climate crisis will challenge all species for the foreseeable future, but it is the responsibility of our species alone to solve the problem (although we can enlist help from the composting microbes). The global size and scope of the issue requires all hands on the table and implementation of all strategies. This involvement at every level is the way Copenhagen truly becomes Hopenhagen.

Tags: climate change, composting, Copenhagen, global warming, Hopenhagen

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