Discover the latest compost studies and techniques to take your composting game to the next level! Our easy-to-understand reports cover everything from home composting secrets to how to use electric composters. Stay up-to-date with the most interesting and informative compost studies to benefit your gardening and composting efforts.
If you’ve made compost from materials outside your garden, and nothing has grown in it, the problem could well be due to a hidden herbicide. While most traditional herbicides do break down in compost, there’s a new breed of herbicide which is far slower to do so. Contaminated manure has caused headaches across the world, […]
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21st June 2023 Love your popcorn? Then you might be pleased to hear that compost doesn’t just improve soil and nutrition – it also increases how well popcorn pops! That’s the latest findings of a study from South Africa, which has revealed that compost increases the ‘popability’ of popcorn. (Popability, apparently, is common parlance in
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Imagine you had a simple kitchen ingredient in your cupboard that could make your compost hotter, enhance its nutritional value, AND reduce harm to the environment. If a Japanese study is right, the cooking oil you use every day could be that ingredient! The researchers had already identified that adding cooking oil to cattle manure
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Every time we finish a meal, and throw food scraps away in the trash, we’re contributing to a massive global problem. Over one-third of our human food waste is trashed – and the emissions that waste produces are helping to kill our planet. However, a study published in Nature revealed a hidden hero in the
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25th April, 2023 With the advent of AI and development in robotics, a future is fast approaching when much of your work (and maybe your composting too!) could be done by robots. But what will happen when those robots come to their end of life? Will it lead to a new endless stream of waste
This Young Engineer Just Made Robot Parts Compostable… Read More »
Boy, do we produce a lot of manure. In the EU alone we produce 1400 million tonnes of manure, and the USA produces a similar amount. (That’s just the animals, humanure excluded.) This causes problems – think methane being released into the atmosphere, for example. But it also has the potential for some serious benefits
Use Manure, But Make Sure You Compost It First, Say Scientists. Here’s Why… Read More »
A new study has uncovered the secret role of viruses in breaking down organic matter in compost. While bacteria are known to play a major role in nutrient cycling, researchers have often overlooked the role of viruses in composting. Using advanced techniques, scientists have delved into the impact of compost bacteria and their viruses during
11 April 2023 If you’ve looked for in-kitchen composting solutions, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of electric composters. The devices make – or at least claim to make – compost from food scraps. There’s a big difference in how they work, though. Some simply chop and dehydrate the materials you put in while
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5th April 2023 In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have discovered that using compost can significantly improve both the growth and nutritional quality of vegetables, specifically carrots. The scientists behind the study were experimenting with a compost that had been made at high temperatures. The compost used in the study contained the bacteria Baccillus, a
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30th March, 2023 Bulking agents key to effective composting – scientists identify the best ones to use As global warming and waste management continue to dominate headlines, a team of Greek researchers has identified some of the keys to efficiently transforming food-waste into quality compost within just 21 days. The research highlights the urgent need
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