Monday 15 December 2008

It's mulch ado about something

Adelaide Advertiser
Monday 1/12/2008 Page: 6

LEFTOVER food scraps from 17 Foodland supermarkets are being used to make compost and mulch in a move that reduces the amount of methane created in landfill. Supermarkets, restaurants, schools and shopping centres in SA send more than 100,000 tonnes of food waste to landfill each year. Each tonne of food which is sent to landfill each week generates about one tonne of greenhouse gas emissions.

Now Jeffries, a compost, soil and mulch processor, is taking stale or unwanted fruit, vegetables, meat, flowers and coffee from Drake Foodland stores to make its products. Environment and Conservation Minister Jay Weatherill said methane was "much more lethal" than carbon dioxide.

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