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How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate

  • Written by Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageTreatment plants can capture over 95% of methane from food waste, compared to about 50% at landfills.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.

Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of food waste are discarded...

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