Imagine a residential house with some grass, bushes/hedges, plants, etc.
About 2-4 times a month, the yard needs to be mowed, pruned, trimmed, etc. and all these yard trimming waste are put in a green bin to be collected by the trash company weekly.
Why can’t you just scatter the yard trimming throughout your landscape and letting it decompose? Cause eventually it’ll become nutrients for your plants, so I consider it a win-win (nutrients for your plants, and no need for trash truck to go around weekly).
The only scenario I can think of are:
1. The yard trimmings might decompose slower than the plants/grass growing rate. So eventually there’ll be an overabundance of yard trimmings.
2. Wind – some areas may be windy where it’ll blow the yard trimmings to neighboring properties.
Would it be bad/harmful practice to start leaving yard trimmings throughout your yard?
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The trash company is (generally) taking the compostable material. It’s composted and used either used for layering a landfill or sold/used for other municiple projects that need soil.
Home owners who want their compostable waste can and do keep it, those that don’t have space or need for it are giving it to someone who does have use for it.
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