Economic Benefits of Composting

Economic Benefits

There are many economic benefits of composting. The society benefits from composting economically by having less Dioxin in the air, which comes from incinerators that burns waste. Composting technically goes around the idea of an incinerator, therefore saving money. A small community is also impacted economically from composting. Such benefits consist of the community working for free and taking care of their neighborhood ensuring that the community is composting. This saves millions of dollars since every community has about 15-20 people working for free as community service.

                                                                                     Incinerators

To built a incinerator would cost about 600 million dollars. The Carroll County charges $58 per ton and is going to increase to $68.69 by 2015. There is also a tipping fee for $4.74. The Frederick County charges $76 per ton. The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority estimates that there will be about 503,700 tons of waste. Once the incinerator is put to use, the risk of certain Cancers begins to increase. With more people being diagnosed with it, the higher the medical bills amongst individuals and families.

Composting

Composting requires less working hours compare to a incinerator. They also do not require fuel deliveries.  Composting is also environmental friendly. Using forced air composting roughly about 4 months, a forced air composting system was able to compost 144 tons. Composting saves money for small families by using the compost for there garden instead of buying fertilizer. This also saves space because it not being sent to a landfill or incinerator.  

References:
http://www.magicsoil.com/MSREV2/economic_benefits.htm
http://www.ecohusky.uconn.edu/compostingbenefits.htm
http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/fundamentals/benefits_economic.htm