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Article text courtesy of nytimes.com “Food Waste Solutions” 

As my colleague Somini Sengupta reported this week, states across the country are passing laws to divert food waste from landfills. As these measures become more common, more cities are starting compost programs like the one I recently joined in New York.

That’s good for the environment because food waste, when it rots in a landfill, produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Composting sharply reduces those emissions. Plus, compost can replace chemical fertilizers.