The United Nations Organization for Food & Agriculture made some interesting connections back in 2015, the “Year of Soil,” linking healthy soils to people’s health, and guess what? Compost adds all those micro- and macro-nutrients listed in the graphic above to depleted soils. Closing this loop returning our wastes from WWTP or food scraps back to soils looks a lot more important to protecting our health and building healthy soils.

Learn more from the UN here.