In Italy (and in most countries I’ve visited), waste sorting typically involves two distinct categories for compost and residual waste.

Question: Why is compost disposed of in a separate collection rather than with residual waste? Are there any environmental differences if it decomposes together with dry waste versus separately? Is it a matter of disposal efficiency, or is it simply another administrative complexity?

  • lukewarm_tauntaun@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    If you think very, very hard about it, the name “compost” might give you a hint as to why IT IS handled separately…