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A juice company dumped orange peels in a national park. This is what it looks like today. (www.upworthy.com)

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...one thousand trucks poured into the national park, offloading over 12,000 metric tons of sticky, mealy, orange compost onto the worn-out plot. The site was left untouched and largely unexamined for over a decade. A sign was placed to ensure future researchers could locate and study it.

16 years later, Janzen dispatched graduate student Timothy Treuer to look for the site where the food waste was dumped.

Treuer initially set out to locate the large placard that marked the plot — and failed.

Compost your fruit scraps! (Or just throw them on the neighbour's pasture land.)

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[–] relianceschool@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I love linking this story in composting subs when people ask if citrus peels are OK! Great demonstration of the power of adding organic matter.

That said, it should be acknowledged that moisture and heat probably played a big role in how quickly the peels broke down and fed the soil; I don't think you'd get similar results in a dry/desert ecosystem.