Dear Parents

Dear parents of the awesome room one student’s,

Room 1 writing here, we are here to tell you that you should be composting. We watched a video on YouTube called Too Good To Waste! Please read our reasons below and watch the video to see why composting is so important.

Do you know that 80% of landfill is recyclable and 50% of your household rubbish is compostable? If we put the right rubbish in the right places we could reduce the amount of waste going to our landfills. Food scrapes and organic waste can be composted at home in your backyard. It’s super easy and great for the garden.

Composting is great for the environment and easy to make: just follow these steps. Make a compost bin from recycled wood or dig a hole in the ground. Fill your compost bin with lawn clippings, brown leaves, and weeds from the garden and food scrapes. Layer these like lasagna. Turn your pile every week or so to get the oxygen through it. Lastly harvest your compost by mixing in with your soil in a vegetable or flower garden.

Landfills are being filled with organic matter, which could be put in our compost bins. Every time new garbage gets put on top of the landfill, organic matter gets trapped with no oxygen. This produces large amounts of methane gas, which accounts for 16% of methane emissions made by humans. Methane gas is bad for the environment and causes air pollution.

Leachate is a type of liquid that is made at a landfill from rotten food with no oxygen. At the bottom of the landfill there are coats of cement, rock and clay to keep the leachate from spreading into our earth and water. There are pipes that collect the leachate and suck it up, moving it to a place where it will not harm anything. Leachate can be brown or black. It is really bad for the environment because it can kill people, plants and animals.

So that is why we should all use a compost bin. It would reduce the amount of waste going to landfills, which would reduce the amount of methane gas and leachate. At home use a compost bin and tell friends and family to use one too. It’s better for the environment.

Thank you for reading our letter.

Yours sincerely

Room 1