Benefits of Composting

• Reduce or eliminate the need for chemical fertilizers.
• Promote higher yields of agricultural crops.
• Facilitate reforestation, wetlands restoration, and habitat revitalization efforts by amending contaminated, compacted, and marginal soils.
• Cost-effectively remediate soils contaminated by hazardous waste.
• Remove solids, oil, grease, and heavy metals from stormwater runoff.
• Avoids Methane and leachate formulation in landfills.
• Capture and destroy 99.6 percent of industrial volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) in contaminated air. See Innovative Uses of Compost: Bioremediation and Pollution Prevention.
• Provide cost savings of at least 50 percent over conventional soil, water, and air pollution remediation technologies, where applicable. See Analysis of Composting as an Environmental Remediation Technology
• Reduces the need for water, fertilizers, and pesticides.
• Serves as a marketable commodity and is a low-cost alternative to standard landfill cover and artificial soil amendments.
• Extends municipal landfill life by diverting organic materials from landfills.

The above information was obtained from the EPA website.