In Italy (and in most countries I’ve visited), waste sorting typically involves two distinct categories for compost and residual waste.

Question: Why is compost disposed of in a separate collection rather than with residual waste? Are there any environmental differences if it decomposes together with dry waste versus separately? Is it a matter of disposal efficiency, or is it simply another administrative complexity?

  • Capricorn@lemmy.todayOP
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    8 months ago

    Rules for the “compost waste” doesn’t apply for making the compost that you use as a fertilizer. Maybe that’s why we call it “wet”. It’s basically anything that is biodegradable. But not everything that is biodegradable is ok for fertilizing…