Posts Tagged ‘soil’

There is this lady on Yahoo Answers that is against using ethenol as an alternative fuel because she says producing a maximum yield of corn, without allowing the fields to go fallow, will ruin the soil for other crops. Corn is naturally hard on soil as it is, so constant production of corn in one place will drain all of the naturally occurring nutrients in the soil. How true is this?

There are proposals to green London’s hi rise flat roofs. The fungi that convert the paper shreddings which are sent to landfill would make an ideal lightweight substrate for converting to soil. What is the best variety?

I need to find the exact effects of these materias on environment.
for example, in how many years should they wait in soil? How many of these products are consumed in a person’s whole life? anything related is fine.