County Zero Waste Team Promotes Backyard Composting
County Zero Waste Team Promotes Backyard Composting COUNTY News: It may sound surprising, but food waste is problematic to the environment. The easy solution—tossing out that wilted head of lettuce or stale loaf of bread—can lead to dangerous consequences. Decomposing food in the landfill releases methane gas. This is serious. As a greenhouse gas, methane is 28 times more efficient than carbon dioxide in trapping heat. And there is a LOT of food rotting in U.S. landfills. According to the national non-profit ReFED, nearly 30 million tons of food were landfilled in the US in 2019. The amou...
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