To accelerate the process, the pile must be a balance between wet and dry material, turn it frequently and make sure the waste is shredded or in small pieces. You can sift the compost to eliminate material which has not yet finished composting. Return this back to the pile to complete its transformation into humus. Put Compost to Good Use Composting can benefit your soil and plants in many ways. It increases the soil's organic matter content and its moisture-holding capacity.
Compost improves soil porosity and helps to control soil erosion.
It also enhances plant and flower growth and helps plants develop a sound root structure. Use it on your lawn, in your garden, around trees or combine it with potting soil for your plants. Like many of the leading municipalities in Alberta, Camrose has once again signed on to a new recycling initiative that diverts heavy metals, found in computers and fluorescent tubes, from being dumped into our landfill. Through a partnership between the City, Centra Cam, Alberta Environment and our computer recycler, Retrosystems, of Calgary, old computers, monitors, printers, keyboards, mouses and other components that are no longer usable, can now be recycled at the Recycle with Centra Cam Collection Depot. Computer recycling is the first part of the program being offered to the general public.