During these days, in isolation, many low and middle income families in Peru, are starting to feel the consequences of the lockdown, for example they suffer from hunger and the lack of sanitation supply. In fact, this  situation is the turning point of debates whether the Government should reopen some moneymaking activities, just to calm down the country. As a result, several families have already taken action, emigrating thus to rural areas. To be implicit ,they seek to get food supply by their own, either growing fruits and vegetables or working. However, this problem, is not just a bad issue but it also has a silver lining because others, both in urban an rural areas, began to compost, aiming to use it back in growing greens and vegetables because they are easier and faster to grow  in dressing, thus get something to eat. Today, I am gladly to talk about this green human activity and share good news at bad time days. Then, in this following article I am going to mention the pros of composting and the environmental cost of not composting.

Before all, Composting does not bring up any cost to environment but vice versa it is a painkiller for both Human and Nature headache. Composting, is often described as nature’s way of recycling organic matter. The process is easy as taking a candy from a baby. This green action, indeed, can be ,in part,  an aid for those people who are suffering the lack of food as consequence of this pandemic. Take the case of my situation, it is hard for me to get a simple onion or carrot because during the lockdown, the prices of several vegetables have increased in great amount. So my family and I looked  for a way of solving our big deal, then, the answer was into the waste bin.  Instead of getting away our organic wastes we just keep them up to utilize them as fertilizer, that way grow our greens and vegetables, due to humus helps plants to grow and improve their quality, likewise. Enough for not dying from starvation. Regarding the environment, Composting reduce land pollution. It is said that, “Organics such as food scraps, food preparation residual, food soiled, paper products, leaves gross clipping, brush and tree trimming comprise over 60% of our waste stream and are completely recyclable”(Bohnotal, 2011). By this data, we can assume that if we create a  composting culture we will reduce 60% of pollutants thrown down the ground. Besides, this green action has two big advantages: first it reduces waste pile up in our already-overfilled trash facilities, and second it adds value to the end product.Therefore, composting is sustainability and going green are all the rage and beneficial.   

On the other hand, what  happen if we do not compost? Still taking into account that it is extremely easy to put in practice,  great amount of people believe that if they do not fertilize their food waste, it will degrade anyway in a landfill.  However, according to reports from the  CBS News, if we do not compost, it causes major issues in landfills. For instance,

“food that goes out with the trash is usually trapped in plastic bags and, often, also in packaging or take-out containers that don’t  let light or air in to finish the natural breakdown. What would normally be organic matter that breaks down quickly becomes artificially preserved in these dark catacombs of containers, sometimes for decade”    

So this food waste in landfill, increase in 20% more the emission of methane. Methane, in turn, contributes to global warming . Consequently, we have to go in composting as soon as possible because it will definitely benefit  mother nature.