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Composting Workshop

Turn your garbage into gold and learn ways to live a more sustainable lifestyle. The benefits of composting are numerous. Composting greatly reduces your carbon footprint simply by removing it from the waste stream. Additionally it reduces the amount of methane being released into the atmosphere. The EPA has identified landfills as the single largest source of methane gas, a global warming gas 20 times more detrimental than carbon dioxide. 

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