From BuildingGreen.com: Commercial Composters Put New, Odorless Spin on an Old-Fashioned Practice (Subscription required to read the full article)
A shocking 40% of food produced in the U.S. never gets eaten, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (PDF). That means we’re casually throwing out a quarter of the fresh water we consume and 4% of the oil we burn, according to the organization. To add insult to injury, because of the methane released during anaerobic digestion, 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from organic waste in landfills, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notes. (Methane is 20 times more potent in the atmosphere over a 100-year period than carbon dioxide.)