The value of compost.

Compost has benefits that go far beyond your plants, your soil, and your garden.

There is considerable science new behind the statement. Composting can heal the planet.

For those new to composting, compost is an organic fertilizer created from decomposing natural matter. You can create it yourself, right in your backyard, using fruit, vegetable, or other plant-based food scraps, and combining them with dead leaves, grass clippings, etc — basically anything that was once alive.
Compost is full of living soil microbes that provide nutrition for your plants. But how does something that seems a lot like simple "dirt" do something good for Mother Earth?

Where would all your food scraps go, if you chose not to compost them and just put them in the rubbish bin? Probably in landfill at the local dump.

Apparently, landfill contribute about one third of all methane emissions that are found in our atmosphere. Methane is now recognized as being over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. So by composting your organics you keep carbon from the atmosphere but store it in your soil along with the other elements ie Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Calcium , and the list goes on, that were part of the original organic matter.

There are also many methods you can use to compost: bokashi, worm composting kits (vermiculture), black solder fly lava and the convenient backyard bins or contained heaps. By far the most common and one of the easiest of these is the use of composting worms. The resulting worm casting compost is widely recognized as the best compost from all the methods in terms of providing nutrient and microbial life to your growing mediums.