Very timely. Just this morning I read about a success in Costa Rica with orange peels.
Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
16 years after the orange peels were dumped on "degraded land"...
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“It was so completely overgrown with trees and vines that I couldn’t even see the 7-foot-long sign with bright yellow lettering marking the site that was only a few feet from the road,” Treuer said. “I knew we needed to come up with some really robust metrics to quantify exactly what was happening and to back up this eye-test, which was showing up at this place and realizing visually how stunning the difference was between fertilized and unfertilized areas.”
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The area to the right of the road had waste orange peels dumped on it:
