Composting

Hippies love composting, a process by which they take organic materials, like food scraps, rotting vegetables and landscape debris, and turn it into nutrient-rich soil to be used in gardens and such. The idea is that those materials are put to better use in the garden than in a landfill. The thing is, landfills are basically big giant compost heaps. Sure, there are other, non-organic things that go into a landfill, but all in all, they function pretty similarly to a backyard composter. Over time, the materials in a landfill decompose and turn into soil. Did the hippies ever consider that, by depriving the landfill of such “healthy” organic materials, they are inadvertently lowering the future quality of the soil that landfill will one day provide for starving populations? Huh? Did they ever think of that? I thought not.