compost
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The back garden now resembles a landfill site, with a huge pile of seed trays, lumber, compost and empty bottles of growing solution left behind.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026
State law requires that finished compost contains no more than 0.5% by dry weight of physical contaminants.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
Not only dreams but broken dreams — the compost that can happen when you digest broken dreams.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
In a space mission setting, the worms could generate compost from discarded materials such as food scraps or cotton clothing and hygiene products that would otherwise be thrown away.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026
In place of petrochemical fertilizers, Greenways’s organic acres are fed with compost from a nearby horse farm and by poultry manure.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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