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- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: June 13, 2018
![The UC Cooperative Extension Compost Education Program facility at Martial Cottle Park in San Jose.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/Green/blogfiles/53161small.jpg)
The UC Cooperative Extension Compost Education Program facility at Martial Cottle Park in San Jose.
One-third of the world's food is spoiled or tossed rather than eaten, a fact that is tragic when nearly one billion people go hungry. The injustice of food waste is worsened by the fact that food decomposing in landfills emits greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
The conventional management of municipal waste in landfills places discarded food and plant matter into an anaerobic environment, initiating a chemical reaction that turns biomass into biogas – specifically methane, a greenhouse gas that's 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
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