A common thought running through many American minds is that food isn’t like trash or garbage, “it will decompose after I throw it away.” Sadly, that is not how it works. Food needs soil, enzymes and microorganisms to decompose and since waste is tightly packed together in landfills, decomposition is restricted. As the IWRC Communications and Public Relations Manager, Joe Bolick put it, “A banana peel in a landfill will still be a banana peel in 20 years.”
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