Composting/Landfills - A smelly solution
A smelly solution
French chemist Jean Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887) made significant contributions to agricultural chemistry by suggesting that good soil was made by the action of microorganismsLiving organisms so small that they can be seen only with the aid of a microscope., bacteria, and fungi that break down waste. Working on his farm, he applied and studied the results of organic methods of farming from 1834 to 1876.
At that time, composting used mostly animal manure or dead fish, as well as nutrient-rich muck from swampy areas. By the twentieth century, large animals such as the buffalo, whose droppings fertilized the prairie soil, were disappearing as were many of the farming communities that contributed barnyard manure to compost piles.
In 1934, Sir Albert Howard, an Englishman, developed the modern organic concept of farming. Through several...
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