Diversion of organic food waste and yard trimmings from the municipal waste stream by composting them in one’s yard through controlled decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi into a humus-like product.

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A mound of soil, stone, etc. created to provide functional and/or ornamental benefits.

Methods that have been determined to be the most effective, practical means of preventing or reducing pollution from non-point sources.

A large number and wide range of species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Ecologically, wide biodiversity is conducive to the development of all species.

A naturally vegetated area established or maintained to cushion and protect aquatic, wetland, shoreline, and terrestrial environments from man-made disturbances.

Describes a plant which sheds or loses its foliage at the end of the growing season.

The science of the relationships between organisms and their environment.

A more or less self-contained biological community together with the physical environment in which the community’s organisms occur.

A partially restricted body of water where the flow of freshwater mixes with saltier water transported, by tide, from the ocean. Estuaries are the most productive water bodies in the world.