They Dump 12,000 Tons Of Orange Peels In the Forest - Years Later, They Return To See The Results

[@irishhi8333]

Had a housemate in 1980 who for a few years buried food scraps (no meat, just veggies and egg shells) throughout the backyard and turned a barren dusty lot into a lush garden. Composting rules! 😊

[@deekang6244]

We did the same thing

[@richardbarber4444]

Properly composted, and we have B & D Farm Services, animal carcasses create quality safe compost.

[@irishhi8333]

@@richardbarber4444 Oh, yeah. He just, personally, didn't feel competent to handle that.

[@richardbarber4444]

@@irishhi8333 Didn't, perhaps; does do so now!

[@patriciasmith7074]

When I was in high school we had an exchange student a boy from Costa Rico and his locker was right next to mine, we talked a little whenever we were there at the same time. I tried to make him feel welcome, I know he missed his homeland and family so I tried to treat him kindly. If they are worried about carbon dioxide, just plant and nurture more Forrest’s. The trees produce more oxygen. What these people did was brilliant and they encourage by composting the orange peels which provided nourishment to the trees. This was brilliant and they should do it in another location. They could grind up the waste into smaller particles to speed up the process. These scientists should have received a Noble Prize.

[@larrygrassinger2819]

But the Nobel Prize goes to horrible people like Obama

[@CecilCorbin-p6k]

🎉😢

[@lyndastraus6513]

Yes!

[@KatieReadsKoziesAndMore]

What a hopeful, healthy way to heal our environment and skip the trash dump. Bravo!

[@ElCid48]

look at our ancestors who were farmers. they did not waste anything even the waste of the animals or theirs and they even used the ash from the wood burners.

[@berrywine-l9c]

Anything that rots can make a good fertilizer.

[@a.sobriquet6220]

This is wonderful! So tragic that the entire world is not yet embracing the necessity of projects like this.

[@Pink_Alien]

We all embrace it. The "🌎's owners" are the ones who are against it, and unfortunately, they own the Media, the Courts, etc etc etc

[@einfelder8262]

Here in Melbourne Australia all food waste is now collected from households every week and composted. Previously it went to landfill. That alone is a bigger project than the Costa Rica oranges. I'm not bagging the Costa Rica project - far from it, just pointing out that you are not aware of what you criticise.

[@christinequinn5355]

@@einfelder8262 That is wonderful to hear.

[@josephjames9302]

Not only orange peels all the vegetable waste and egg shells can be used for plants growth

[@MikeA15206]

15:03

[@tomdavidson5719]

We all need to do this instead of concreting our gardens!

[@stefanweilhartner4415]

and to start the turbo, human shit and piss does a great job as well. this has always been the cycle of life.

[@marijkegroothuis3814]

Now if the photos were actually showing the REAL growth of 26 years, this story would have had a lot more impact imo

[@Dionelodanote]

some photos are of a northern forest, what it has to do with Costa Rica? Is his all an AI work?

[@virtuallifter2438]

it's a bot account meant to generate money

[@Emy53]

In 26 years, Elon will have us all on Mars, and humans will destroy that too. I love my planet, and I never hurt it.

[@Emy53]

My goodness...in a jungle, the peels return to the earth as fertilizer. That was such a pullshit case.

[@niniv2706]

@Woodstock-ct1li - Allow me to use the word in context . "I called pullshit as soon as the pair of woke activists were presented inthe first minute of this pullshit clip." Glad to help ... Good day Wood

[@davidtaylor657]

Thank-you, sir, I really think you did an excellent job narrating this documentary. I grew up in the Caribbean so this has been of particular interest to me.

[@shelbykuenning2575]

Most people who complete their garbage for their gardens know this works. Grinding up the orange peels first will accelerate the process.

[@jamesdietz29]

Who'da thunk composting plant waste would make for rich soil.

[@janj2902]

This could not be possible in Belgium. Almost all of our oranges are treated with a sort of petroleum-wax which is not biologically broke down. This to conserves them during their often long transport time. I have a flourishing vegetable garden and make compost out af all my kitchen waste (except meat and cooked food, that goes to the chickens, afterwards I do add the droppings of the chickens to the rest). It enriches the soil every year, this soil is of an amazing quality using this method and I hardly need to add biological fertilizers. I hardly have bugs in the garden en never destroy them (only snails when it is a wet summer). Those i pick by hand a few days at night. Every year i have beautiful crops. Except all citrus peels, those i dump in the garbage because they are treated. You can buy untreated but they are very expensive and only last a few days and buy a few of them when I need them for a recipe. Compost proces goes very slow here because of the colder climate in winter. But as soon it is March it restarts at an amazing tempo...

[@jules5811]

Oranges are grown in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Africa A day down the road in transit time and spoilage unlikely. Something else going on

[@gillesb763]

​Also florida,california,south america and i probably forgot a few​@@jules5811

[@monakw]

It sounds like you have a beautiful system of gardening and working with nature.. I used to hand-pick snails off of my plants at night too. These snails were voracious munchers and they loved to eat what I call my gourmet plants. I live in the subtropics, the snails were incredibly prolific. Literally hundreds of snails would come out in the evening. I speak of the snails in past tense because they are all gone now! In 2017 hurricane Irma came through here with a 4-foot flood of ocean water. Since then I've only seen ONE snail. The lack of snails doesn't seem to have affected the environment in a negative way and it made me very happy. No more bites out of the foliage.No more snail trails or snail poop and no more snail hunting!! 🐌🌙 🐌 PS the entire Garden was also destroyed in the process and took years to come back from scorched Earth. Now it is lush again. In conclusion not having snails is great but a hurricane is not the best solution to get rid of them. Lol ✌️

[@vps1014]

umm..natural compost is biological fertiliser.

[@monakw]

@vps1014 Umm nothing about my snails though? 🐌 I kid. 😏

[@nancygilliland4002]

Has no one ever heard of composting? Good grief😮

[@drew-shourd]

I love it when narrow minded people make comments, allow me to expand your mind: This was12,000 TONS, I have never heard of 'composting' as you call it, on such a massive scale. Composting ONLY works when many different types of waste is used, which allows their individual chemicals to break down other waste. PLUS, a true composting area needs to be stirred up, mix well, to oxygenate the bacteria, to speed the decomposition, which helps to entire process. THIS was just an experiment, that happen to work. Let me share my comment to this video: "Humans, what an arrogant bunch. Their egos filled with knowledge, yet they lack wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge used wisely, knowledge comes from experience, experience takes action and an open mind. Nature, which is billions of years old, doesn't listen to the voices or actions of mere infants, meaning humans. Nature is always there to teach us valuable lessons. Look at earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, mood slides, forest fires, etc., so just when humans think they know everything, nature teaches us even more." I can tell, you are a human Nancy or should I say, 'Karen'....

[@vazquezcarlos]

I know. That's what I kept saying. It's unfortunate so much ignorance on how ecology works. One issue I have though is Orange juice ...or any juices ..are no better than drinking soda with it's high sugar content. So much nutrition is in the pulp and inner skin of the fruit. At least it's going back into the soil.

[@debbyrose646]

American Education system. If we can’t teach math because it is too hard, could we at least teach environment science.

[@richardgadoury8452]

Nancy, It is impossible to compost a "single source" type of organic. The orange juice factory produces way too much produce to compost it by itself. I have no idea what they do with their waste. Check out the "Lunenburg Composting Facility" in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. I was the Project Manager for building it and doing the biological commissioning. One hell of a learning experience...

[@theresabu3000]

Did they mention how they got rid of the toxic oil on the surface of the peel? It normally prevents plant growth - that's why you don't throw citrus waste in the compost. If it's less expensive to get rid of the oil - then the peels in general, then this would be a great idea. Also with other plant waste not composted.

[@brianlawrence1939]

I used to grow new potatoes in the garden, and put the tops in my large compost heap. I always got a few potatoes in the compst in the next year, and now I have given up planting seed potatoes in the garden. I just put some new potatoes that have started to sprout in the compost in the spring, and get a crop of clean potatoes when I use the compost in the autumn

[@stephenwilliams6451]

Super. It is also healthy for humans to consume orange peels. Admittedly, some don't taste very nice, but mangarine and others taste quite nice.

[@rjb7569]

You're also consuming the pesticides, insecticides, etc. from the skin. Most will not wash off. Go organic. Costly but much better for your survival.

[@vazquezcarlos]

Yeah, we throw away so much of our edible produce. I now eat the green parts of strawberries and kiwi skin and try to eat as much of the inner skin of citrus fruits as I can...and the seeds too. When I cook with lemons, I cook with the entire peel and eat it afterwards.

[@petertaysum8947]

Dried out orange peel makes excellent fire starters.

[@max-q7129]

This is 10 minutes too long. So much rambling made it hard to get through the video. Just horrible editing. Good story but stop all the stupid add on crap

[@virtuallifter2438]

it's an ai generated bot story. you can usually tell because the bot always rambles.

[@ryuuguu01]

I switched to 2x play speed after a minute when I realized it was going to be a bot story.

[@Ethan.s..]

We had to imagine how it would fill up a soccer stadium though. Ha

[@Icuh8n911]

​@@virtuallifter2438yep. I always knew trump was ai. I couldn't agree with more for saying that

[@Thomas-h4n5h]

They try to milk their audience for time.

[@sstarklite2181]

This is wonderful! I wonder if they could have spread it out rather than make such huge piles. Maybe it stopped growth for a while because it was such huge piles. It should be tried both ways to see if it’s the same outcome.

[@plantladygrant1]

That was one of the best short documentaries.I have ever seen and congratulations to those scientists even though they were stopped early on.Someone else picked up the ball.And ran all the way to the goal post with it. Much thanks to god for people like this. Some of my neighbors do not like my black bags.Full of leaves that I have in my yard but I turn them back into soil a lot of them.Do not understand. I love to video❤

[@robertwalsh1724]

Thanks!

[@touchofgrey5372]

You actually took the effort to donate a whopping $2.00. Bless you. Are you sure you can afford it!

[@robertwalsh1724]

@@touchofgrey5372 Actually I can. WTF is it to you?

[@kimballentyne3482]

Great experiment. You can make your own rich healthy soil by using left over fruit and vegetables with their peel and egg shells, and if you have any poultry add their left over poop to the heap. Yearly use a garden fork and turn the compost over.

[@rickemmet1104]

Why not compost the orange rinds with Aerated Static Piles and then cover the poor soil with the compost? There are NO negative effects from compost. Said compost could also be place on any land, private land, farms, ESA lands, which would be a benefit.

[@dougward6590]

This is a great story. As an old man prone to view such experiments with some skepticism, I'd remind us SOME such well intentioned "experiments" have gone terribly wrong. Looks like a win here. Great. All I'm saying is simply use caution

[@24tanksalot]

This should be done everywhere

[@margaretmacneill3133]

In Zimbabwe at Nottingham Estates (dont know why the link doesnt work) they give all the orange shells and pulp to the wildlife, particularly Elephants, Eland and baboons. Everything is eaten and what isnt digested goes back to the soil😊😊 Nottingham is an ECO managed estate and tourists love seeing the feeding of the eles.

[@carlairiel-g1l]

very good content. congratulations!

[@grahamfoulkes7321]

I'm a little confused. Orange fruit processors, if efficiency and utilization of feedstock materiel is important, (they usually go out of business if not), they SELL the peel to orange oil distillers. Orange oil is a very good alternative to hydro carbon, terpenes and chlorinated compounds, eg. carbon tetra chloride, solvents for removing sticky gunk and labels from waste streams before further processing. Also used in perfumary and soft drinks manufacture etc, etc.

[@VitoAnthonyD.-ow7oo]

Interesting!

[@petertaysum8947]

Neroli from the blossom, Pettigrain from the leaves and stalks, and Orange Oil from the peel. Like grapes, one of Nature's finest gifts.

[@warrenwilson4818]

Terrific! Excellent production! Mo. Nov. 25, 2024. St. Joseph, MO. USA

[@brendabiffibaldovino8306]

Thanks so much for sharing ❤ ❤ ❤

[@shawnrhyme5831]

I've heard this story about the orange peels, some years ago and if I remember, it was better than the way you told it. I'm not into mono.

[@Bill-im6nt]

WOW from the pictures in 25 years, 50 to 100 year old trees grew!! 😛

[@virtuallifter2438]

this is an AI account

[@susanp.collins7834]

You noticed.

[@StarLight-v4z]

Thank u, very good info and movie

[@MichaelArledge-i5f]

Love the video

[@Lovetheducks]

I remember when this was first done so smart. I love Costa Rica.

[@Claude-h8d]

Interesting story... Thank you

[@kamaeq]

Missing the point that rain forests tend to recycle everything and isn't the most nutritional soil.

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

Yeah, I was annoyed with the repeated assertion that it was the cattle grazing that depleted the soil. Rather, in a tropical rain forest, the plants take up the nutrients as fast as the decomposers can release it. The soil is poor. When the biomass is removed, the nutrients of that place are removed with it. Some grass can grow, and the manure from the cattle probably helps, so it is not the grazing, but the removal of the biomass that left a nutritionally impoverished area. The peels returned what burning or clear-cutting had initially removed.

[@sgrdpdrsn]

I use Bokashi to ferment ALL my organic waste before digging it into my garden soil. I have a warm composting bin and tried a mix of 1 month old Bokashi-waste with ordinary cheap (bought) garden soil. I placed a couple of worms into it. After a month there must be "a million". I suggest to use Bokashi first to all waste. The liquid from the Bokashi is also so attractive to slugs that I can hardly find a single one left on my property (and even on the property of my neighbor). I used this liquid in a slug trap.

[@sailorbychoice1]

But who's to say that being made to stop dumping {when they did}, and leaving the land alone for twenty years wasn't a significant factor in the return of growth to that chunk of forest.

[@doncook2054]

so cool to see this, this morning....

[@ArchangeloLotus]

Typically it’s unadvisable to include citrus in compost because of acidity. Worms are the soil builders. I’m curious about the specifics on the decomposers and what it did to the micro rhizomes. How do they clean limonene?

[@cherylmontcrief7600]

I love this story.Thanks for sharing.My Compst s growing a watermelon.

[@heffo67]

The 'concerned farmers' pic used showed the farmer wearing an Asian conical hat and the 'lush forest' pic was a northern European pine forest, hilarious 😂

[@JW-hf9ev]

Hero’s in my opinions. Cheers to ORO and the Teams

[@birdolla4441]

A little visually exaggerated here don't you think in only 25 years growth

[@vazquezcarlos]

Fig and banyon trees tend to grow very fast.

[@jimallen1186]

Those trees are way more than 16 years old

[@nigelkingify]

I agree. The pictures do not make sense.

[@johnwang9914]

So they proved that composting worked... The soil enrichment lasting 26 years is notable though as most of the carbon in composting turns into CO₂ within a few short years. Now, what would be interesting is if they had fed the agricultural wastes into gasifiers producing syngas and charcoal then used the syngas either to produce electricity for the grid or to synthesize diesel, number 2 heating oil and gasoline and use the charcoal as biochar which has been known to enrich the spil for two thousand years as well as sequestering the carbon. Yes, a fair bit of the carbon would become CO₂ in the gasification process and what is turned into syngas will also eventually become CO₂ as it's used as a fuel but what remains as biochar would be sequestered carbon. Composting is short term sequestration but biochar is potentially long term sequestration (we only have two thousand years of ancient use of biochar with the Brazillian Terra Preta to go by).

[@joncan2348]

Put your household veggie and fruit scrap into your garden or local trees. You will be shocked at how fast your garden and local trees will grow. This would reduce the fuel required to haul away your veggie and fruit scraps by the city garbage collecting trucks.

[@daniels7907]

Amazing that so many people failed to believe in the well-known use of compost.

[@jameseast7966]

The Florida citrus industry feeds some peels to cattle Rich in many vital nutrients.

[@lckoolg622]

We live in a remote and isolated semi desert region where only grain crops and hardy mallee vegetation grows. I will try this method on a small section of calciferous soil on our property.

[@unnikrishnanmenon4178]

Where is this place please

[@lckoolg622]

@@unnikrishnanmenon4178 Streaky Bay South Australia

[@carolhieronymus8816]

If this is true, it’s wonderful.

[@henniegrobler5164]

Thamk you very good

[@johnrupe3279]

Something seems off about this story. If you have ever visited a citrus processing plant here in the U.S., not one bit of the orange or grapefruit go to waste. The oil is skimmed off for use in household products like cleaners. The peels are dried and processed into feed additives for livestock. The pulp is collected for use in different blends of the juice. And the juice is batched and graded for blending to create consistent tasting juice for packaging. Nothing goes to waste. I don't buy it.

[@kanonierable]

I don't buy it either, but most people here seem incapable of thinking logically. Just ask yourself what happened to that wonderful idealistic couple that allegedly initiated the project, did they just walk away? And what kind of a "conservation area" is this, that has nobody in charge of monitoring what is going on! The idea that it takes again some US "scientists" to follow rumors of a lost orange peel dumping site hidden deep in the southamerican jungle, come on, really?

[@jimthar17]

Whatever happened to the plastic bags that were being made from cauliflower? I remember it being a thing a few years back but it kind of disappeared. Maybe that should be the subject of a future video.

[@spacelemur7955]

The first and last time I watch this channel. It treats the viewers like grade schoolers. The channel goes straight to the _Do not recommend_ list.

[@joycemcallister9509]

Awsome love !!!!!

[@solapowsj25]

❤

[@jeemjeem6190]

You can put your fruit and vegetable peels in with your yard waste if you have yard waste pickup in your community as long as you didn't cook it. Used Halloween pumpkins, watermelon rinds, etc. can all be composted with yard waste.

[@flamindigo]

great story

[@nancydelu4061]

Good show!

[@user-dw2dr6zf3n]

Why are restaurants putting all vegetable scraps into compost? Cuts down garbage disposal costs and helps the growing of lawns and pastures. Will help your lawn and grass become so much more greener and healthier.

[@BobbyStanaland]

I wonder what happens to the peels if they are not dumped.

[@dolinaj1]

Composting is a no-brainer. They are dumped into a land fill, most likely, and some fed to animals if not treated with petro-derived products.

[@mattroberts86]

Garbage treated with oil.... lol

[@EdSeyfert]

This is why I mulch when I mow my grass and also much the leaves that fall in autumn, is good for the lawn and keeps the residue out of the landfill!!

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

I doubt that in 16 years large fluted trunk Ficus could reach that size. None of the film or photos are of that plot of land. It's another case of "If it sounds to good to be true"..

[@jooproos6559]

Yes!They only let you see the orange piles,but not wat it is turnt into..

[@vazquezcarlos]

Trees in the Fig family tend to grow very fast...like the Banyan tree.

[@jeanyluisa8483]

Turning orange peels into plastic for plastic bottles min: 14:31) could make that method much more cost efficient. Instead of spending gas and money to dump the orange peels into the forrest by trucks, they could utilize those millions of people who dump plastic bottles into the landscape, forrests and oceans for free.

[@markgarin6355]

And then they ran out of room, and they still had orange peele.... Oh yeah, those GPS locations can be confusing. Ah...their non peel tree study was a bit off.

[@XmasEve64]

If the stuff is clean it helps growth af course. It works with salmon for instance as well, left by bears. The trees grow bigger than the other one

[@Nsibidiimohtep-pf9gh]

It can be done anywhere in the world.just dig the Earth and dump veggie and fruit waste then cover it with earth dirt and leaves it for the Micro Earth animals to take care

[@EdwardLacson-u5o]

The fruit of advocacy often comes real long time, that those who exerted their efforts on it, are no longer around to witness the success.

[@jandamskier6510]

Were the peels from organically grown fruits?

[@eileenhetherington3704]

Anyone with a yard can improve their soil by dumping food scraps outdoors. We are too lazy to maintain a composting pile. Yes, in some areas, this is not safe as it may attract bears or mice/rats. We have none of these problems. We live on a large lot with very sandy soil. We had to bring in topsoil to garden. We started dumping our fruit and veg table scraps under a few inches of sand. Within a few years all of our trees and plants became healthier. We saved a couple of trees which had been dying. We can now plant flowers and they actually come up. Our neighbors think we are strange, who cares? I wish we had started this 20 years ago.

[@hubertrobinson8825]

Some animals feed on the orange peels too mainly agoutis and pecaries and coaties birds too feeds on the insects it's like a super food store in the jungle

[@touchofgrey5372]

Now, you're going to have every Tom, Dick & Harry dump their orange peels in forests, hoping to help it.

[@vazquezcarlos]

I hope so! I used to throw my organic waste in a hole in my backyard and cover it with dirt. Within weeks I had so many fruits and vegetables growing out of it!!!

[@Icuh8n911]

Unless you threw old orange trump in then everythings gonna die​@@vazquezcarlos

[@vazquezcarlos]

​@@Icuh8n911organic waste includes some seeds. When I composted them, some of those seeds germinated and grew. I'm not sure if that's what you're referring too.

[@vazquezcarlos]

​@@Icuh8n911let me also add that the other organic matter adds nutrients to the soil that helps the seeds grow into plants. Similar to how the composting/decomposing Orange peels helped fertilize any seeds that were under them.

[@robertcarter4649]

If they have access to them mix rice hulls with the soil it does wonders have seen it work

[@careymitchell4731]

Orange peels today are crushed and distilled to recover limonene and some other solvents. Thhe leftover pulp can then be composted.

[@monakw]

Composting is thousands of years old. Please put the orange man there the next time around. You know, to sweep the forest floor. ✌️

[@VitoAnthonyD.-ow7oo]

Here. Got a nice juicy L for ya!

[@scottmcshannon6821]

to bad its illegal to do so in the country. how much did the second company waste canceling the first company? did the second company even try to get the same deal?

[@kellyswoodyard]

That fig tree DID NOT grow to the size you allude to isnt 16 years old. That tree in your report is hundreds of years old. I call bullshit. By the way, i lived in Australia's tropics for 30 years.

[@phillipbailey9615]

Please believe it, some dont know the narural science, and are ignorant of the positives and negatives they dont even wonder at it, and are not even amazed.😮

[@kanonierable]

Why don't yo try a bit of critical thinking, just "believing" is not enough! The entire story makes zero sense, of course composting works, that is not the point but there are so many holes in that AI crated feel good fairy tale. Just ask yourself what happened to that idealistic couple, what kept them from monitoring the site? Why are you too lazy to ask yourself the most basic questions?

[@JasonOrefice]

I cant believe that they would expect to find orange peels 16 years later

[@bonitahobbs2374]

Could give nutrients and natural health to the land!!!! SAD MANKIND hurt so many natural spaces..Thank you All for giving back in a kind way !!!

[@nosecondplace6833]

I must have missed the time when composting natural waste did not help other plants grow. These "experts" must have not just tried this in their home garden...

[@xxxxxx-tq4mw]

Going in that new growth, i’d be scared bleep-less, of stepping on a fer-de-lance snake, or some other same such extremely dangerous viper, of which Costa Rica has a few.

[@tonymcgeachin9906]

Wow, the Orange peel turned to soil. No shine Sherlock, who'd a funk it...

[@virtuallifter2438]

Can't believe there are almost 300k subs watching videos created by an AI bot

[@longrider42]

Orange peels will break down, or will get eaten. I suspect that is what happened to all those orange peels. But in the end, the decayed and or eaten peels, returned to the soil, one way or another. Its simple composting. They only thing that would have sped up the process, would have been to shred the peels, then spread them out and not dumped them into mounds. But hey, it did work.

[@woodchip2782]

15 minutes of boring repetitions with photos for almost nothing…😮

[@davidelplaneta272]

Seems strange that cow manure would make the forest soil unproductive when cattle manure has been used for centuries to enrich soil. Composting is good for providing nutrients also, but the nutrients from manure are beneficial as long as you don’t use too much. Maybe there was a corral or feedlot at the location previous to the orange peel experiment, and that could have damaged the undergrowth. This story seems like one of those “let’s make cattle the new scapegoat for global warming” collaborations. Do vegans really think that growing vegetables is simple without pesticides and using lots of water? Birth control is probably the only answer to saving the planet from overpopulation until we can actually travel to other planets, maybe in a few hundred years.

[@solapowsj25]

Can food cook without heat 🔥from a fire. No. The wastes from the kitchen degrade well when there's flowing water (rain) and the microbes. This is good.

[@JonathanMallard-k9f]

. . . why weren't there any orange trees growing ? There must have been a seed or two in the peel waste . . .

[@arsnotorious]

It's misrepresented... the site of the signs showed soil layer debris... of a brown substance... Then they show deep rooted trees that are much older than 15 years old... just by judging the bark discoloration. Also your trucks full of orange peels... are dumping on flat surfaces, the lush trees you depicted are on steep inclines and gullys a dump truck?.. especially a low bed... wouldn't make it into.😅😅😅

[@Icecrys]

Composting on a massive scale. 👍

[@willcoll8789]

Why wouldn’t the manure from the cattle grazing replenish the soil? That is why the Great Plains of North America were so fertile before the advent of monoculture, because of millions of buffalo continuously fertilizing them… seems like a disconnect in this story

[@phillipbailey9615]

One way or another any plant waste is useful for encouraging other plants to thrive, so long as , said plants arent toxic, some are , naturally, the only negative with vegetation waste, is when you have to transport it many miles for use in another manufacturing process, so any composting is good, even better keeping it local, otherwise, you transporting it may outweigh its beneficial, process.

[@lynnhubbard844]

why wasn't this done LONG time ago?

[@scotchpak]

These peels are used for making gunpowder

[@johncooke1386]

To make a short story loooong…..

[@franklesser5655]

Why not return the orange peels to the groves where the oranges were grown?

[@MrPortajohn]

Before decay? That's a huge risk to the health of the trees and production quality. Orchards and groves require a lot more work and care than most people understand. No one is going to experiment on their livelihood like that. Even if they're just composting it on the same property they would run the risk of attracting more of every pest and disease orange trees get attacked by. It wouldn't be a wise decision. There are tons of profitable uses these factories could explore like extracting compounds, food uses, cosmetics, or even something db like potpourri among other things. They wouldn't even have to ship it all somewhere if they just looked into expanding their production beyond just juice.

[@jethroPDiddy]

They miraculously discovered compost. Hold the presses.

[@markrindt8730]

1:23.. Most definitely Old-world buildings.

[@Carlsbaddest]

It takes a thousand 'scientists' and 'experts' and God knows how much money to determine that composting creates the best soil? They could have just asked my Grandmother.

[@kenboulton6447]

A 15 minute shaggy dog story. That could have been said in 5 minutes.

[@newagetemplar6100]

I’m trying something similar by taking a leak in the garden at least 4 times a day . 😂

[@MatAK49]

It's called COMPOST. People have been doing it for thousands of years.