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One way to reduce food waste: Use it to make soil healthier

  • Written by Matthew Wallenstein, Professor and Department Head, Colorado State University
Wastes from facilities like this cheese factory could find uses in agriculture.Shutterstock.com/Giuseppe Parisi

Imagine that one-third of cars manufactured by Ford or GM were never even driven once, but instead were left to rust and ended up in landfills. This exact situation is true today in agriculture, where up to 40 percent of food produced...

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