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The Peninsula Compost Group is positioned to be the premier composting organization in the United States through its management expertise, superior process and industry knowledge to produce environmentally sound, organics for the commercial industries and residential communities in which it serves.
Composting is a significant environmental solution that can decrease landfill waste, greenhouse gases, and provides an excellent solution to restoring the climate and our soil. Specifically composting:
- Significantly decreasing waste disposed in landfills and incinerators will reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the equivalent of closing 21 percent of the US coal-fired power plants.
- According to the USEPA, food, yard and wood waste accounts for approximately 31 percent of the Municipal Solid Waste stream in the US.
- Landfills are the largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions in the US, accounting for 34 percent of the methane gas emissions coming from landfill gas generated from buried and decaying organic materials.
- Composting avoids significant methane emissions from landfills, increases carbon storage in soils and improves plant growth, which in turn expands carbon sequestration.
- Composting is vital to restoring the climate and our soils.
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