In response to a parliamentary question, Australian states like New South Wales and Victoria are accelerating Food Waste disposal. They’ve adopted the FOGO system to turn household food and organic waste into valuable fertilizer, aiming to halve landfill Food Waste by 2030. What happens to food waste like lettuce or fruit peels in regular trash? In landfills, this waste breaks down without oxygen. Microorganisms then decompose it.This process releases methane and carbon dioxide. Critically, these are major greenhouse gases damaging Earth’s atmosphere. Australia produces about 8.2 million tons of food waste every year Australia uses a three-bin system: red (general waste), yellow (recycling), and green (garden waste). Yet the nation still produces 8.2...
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