It is a technique that imitates nature to transform - more quickly - all kinds of organic remains, in what is called compost or mulch, which after its application on the surface of our land will be associated with humus, which is the essence of the good living of a healthy soil, fertile and balanced in nature.
This technique is based on a biological process (full of life), which is carried out under aerobic fermentation conditions (with air), with sufficient humidity and that ensures a hygienic transformation of the organic remains into a homogeneous food and highly assimilable by our soils . In this biological process, the microbial population is involved, such as the Bacteria, Actomycetes, and Fungi that are responsible for 95% of the composting activity and also the algae, protozoa and cyanophysiae. In addition, in the final phase of this process, macro-organisms such as colébolo, mite, earthworm and many other species are also involved.
Composting has been done since ancient times and is known by different names. There are many ways to develop it. We can still remember the "garbage", ongarria, the cemo, the cuchu, from the stables of our surroundings. At present there are large industrial composting plants that feed on waste from cities or highly populated areas where selective garbage collection begins to be organized. In these large industrial composting plants both organic food, agricultural, livestock, forestry and sludge wastes extracted from sewage treatment plants are used. But domestic and collective composting is also spreading in rural areas.
In our rural areas, despite the decline in livestock, agriculture and forestry, there is a large expansion of urbanized areas of single-family homes with gardens and orchards. In them important amounts of varied plant remains are generated that together with organic food or animal husbandry remains are a great resource that we could use both in each home and collectively with composting techniques.
