How to Turn Food Waste Into Fertilizer

In England, they've started a pilot project to see if it's feasible to collect food wastes separate from the rest of the wastes from a household, and to compost it in a centrallized municiple compost instead of throwing it in with the rest of the trash to rot and release Co2. It also says that the pilot project is encouraging, and that it has gone well, with something like 75%-ish of all people in the project willingly going along.

I think this is fantastic. And I think it can be taken to the next level once everyone is in on it, like so:

- expend the project until everyone in the country, residential or commercial, is separating their food wastes and sending them for composting

- once all those tons of food become tons of compost, start to distrubute the fresh new dirt to the homes that participate, to the restaurants and office buildings and schools, and give tax breaks or deductions or refunds or something, even just a small amount, to encourage people to use this new dirt to grow food at home

- distribute excess to farms as fertilizer, revitilizing the local farmlands, too

- organize excess-food-collecting on a city level, taking it to homeless shelters and soup kitchens, so even the people who can't grow their own food where they live can benefit from the program

- and set up work for those who can work in public food-growing allotments for the same shelters and soup kitchens, so they, too, can be invovled in the closed-loop