UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE TAPACHULA

ENGLISH CLASS

INTRODUTION

The 40% of the waste produced at home is

composed of organic material and is important to
know how you can take advantage of that organic
material.

WHAT IS THE COMPOSTING?

Composting is a natural process of recycling

organic material such as leaves and vegetable
scraps into a rich soil amendment, that gardeners
fondly nickname Black Gold.

OBJETIVE
1.-To know the five "R" of the
environmentalist user. (Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle, Rejet, Respond.)
2.- To understand how composting
improve the soil.
3.- To know how to make and use compost.

METHOLOGY
In

the first step you should choose an spacious place

and clean it.

Then, make a hole of 1x1

meter and put your vegetable
scraps into the hole.

The next step is so easily, you should wet

the vegetable scraps and after put on it a
black bag.
Every week you should remove your
compost to have Every week you
should remove your compost to
have better results.

GLOSSARY

COMPOSTING: ACT OF STORING ORGANIC MATERIAL AND USING IT AS FERTILIZER.

TO REDUCE: IT MEANS REDUCING YOUR CONSUMPTION OR BUYING LESS.

TO REUSE: RATHER THAN THROWING OUT ITEMS LIKE CLOTHING OR FOOD JARS,
CONSUMERS CAN FIND NEW USES FOR THEM AND THEREBY REDUCE THEIR CONSUMPTION
OF NEW RESOURCES.

TO RECYCLE: RECYCLING EXTRACTS VALUABLE MATERIALS FROM ITEMS THAT MIGHT

OTHERWISE BE CONSIDERED TRASH AND TURNS THEM INTO NEW PRODUCTS.

SHOWEL: A TOOL WITH A HANDLE AND BROAD SCOOP OR BLADE FOR DIGGING AND
MOVING MATERIAL, SUCH AS DIRT OR SNOW.

WATER: A CLEAR LIQUID, WITHOUT COLOUR OR TASTE, THAT FALLS FROM THE SKY AS
RAIN AND IS NECESSARY FOR ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE.

PLANT: SMALL VEGETABLE GROWTH.

NUTRIENT: NUTRIOUS SUBSTANCE.

ORGANIC:

CHARACTERISTIC OF OR PERTAINING TO LIVING ORGANISMS.

ORGANIC FERTILIZER: A FERTILIZER THAT IS DERIVED FROM ANIMAL OR
VEGETABLE MATTER.
BONEMEAL: FERTILIZER MADE OF GROUND BONES.
NEEM CAKE: RESIDUE AFTER OIL IS PRESSED FROM NEEM SEEDS.
FERTILISER, FERTILIZER, PLANT FOOD: ANY SUBSTANCE SUCH AS
MANURE OR A MIXTURE OF NITRATES USED TO MAKE SOIL MORE FERTILE.
MANURE: ANY ANIMAL OR PLANT MATERIAL USED TO FERTILIZE LAND
ESPECIALLY ANIMAL EXCRETA USUALLY WITH LITTER MATERIAL.
FISH MEAL: GROUND DRIED FISH USED AS FERTILIZER AND AS FEED FOR
DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK.
GUANO: THE EXCREMENT OF SEA BIRDS; USED AS FERTILIZER.
LEAF: A USUALLY GREEN, FLATTENED, LATERAL STRUCTURE ATTACHED TO
A STEM AND FUNCTIONING AS A PRINCIPAL ORGAN OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS
AND TRANSPIRATION IN MOST PLANTS.
BLACK BAG: USING TO INCREASE THE HIT IN THE COMPOSTING.