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A juice company dumped orange peels in a national park. This is what it looks like today (www.upworthy.com)
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...one thousand trucks poured into the national park, offloading over 12,000 metric tons of sticky, mealy, orange compost onto the worn-out plot. The site was left untouched and largely unexamined for over a decade. A sign was placed to ensure future researchers could locate and study it.

16 years later, Janzen dispatched graduate student Timothy Treuer to look for the site where the food waste was dumped.

Treuer initially set out to locate the large placard that marked the plot — and failed.

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[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

I love this.

We ought to have composting bins collected just like garbage trucks. It'd decrease the amount of garbage trucks needed and it'd fix a lot of our deforestation problems.

[-] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but don't we already do this?

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

Not really, at least not where I live.

There are only two bins, trash and recycling. The city hires people to collect that, and drop it off as some facility to handle it. But we need a 3rd category, compost. Anything that's food waste, yard trimmings, etc should be collected.

Then it can be used like in the article.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

My town has this, they turn it into compost and sell it. Which is why getting cigarette butts in there is a good size fine.

[-] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Interesting. Everywhere I've lived for the last 10+ years (3 cities and a rural acreage in Canada, village in Austria and visiting relatives in various towns in the UK) has had a municipal composting programme. I just assumed it was the norm now.

Hopefully you get one where you are soon!

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