{"id":2082,"date":"2025-02-18T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/?page_id=2082"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:50:07","slug":"recycling-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/recycling-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Food Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.mo.gov\/waste-recycling\/reduce-reuse-recycle\/what-to-do-with-specific\/food\">food waste<\/a>&nbsp;and yard waste currently make up more than 28% of the waste we throw away. Composting has become an increasingly popular activity to combat this issue.&nbsp;By using food scraps and yard waste&nbsp;to make&nbsp;compost, we keep those materials out of our landfills, where they take up valuable space and release methane, a greenhouse gas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compost is a humus-like product made from decomposed&nbsp;organic materials. Compost is a natural fertilizer&nbsp;that can be added to soil to help retain moisture, reduce erosion, feed plants, improve the soil around trees and shrubs&nbsp;and top dress&nbsp;lawns.&nbsp;Compost stimulates plant growth through time release nutrients. It also&nbsp;protects&nbsp;the landscape against weather extremes, especially drought, by keeping soils warmer in winter and cooler in summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, there are no food composting services in Region D. However, composting classes are being offered in 2025 for those interested in learning more about the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Types of Composting<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/vermi-composting\/\">Vermi-Composting<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-2 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-background-color has-background wp-element-button\">Backyard Composting<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,&nbsp;food waste&nbsp;and yard waste currently make up more than 28% of the waste we throw away. Composting has become an increasingly popular activity to combat this issue.&nbsp;By using food scraps and yard waste&nbsp;to make&nbsp;compost, we keep those materials out of our landfills, where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2082","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2082\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.regiondrecycling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}