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A juice company dumped orange peels in a national park. This is what it looks like today (www.upworthy.com)

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...one thousand trucks poured into the national park, offloading over 12,000 metric tons of sticky, mealy, orange compost onto the worn-out plot. The site was left untouched and largely unexamined for over a decade. A sign was placed to ensure future researchers could locate and study it.

16 years later, Janzen dispatched graduate student Timothy Treuer to look for the site where the food waste was dumped.

Treuer initially set out to locate the large placard that marked the plot — and failed.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In my area, they do that too, but it's taken to a municipal composting spot. It's 100% voluntary; you can leave the leaves where they lie, compost them yourself, or rake them up against the edge of your yard which is the cue for them to collect them with the big vacuum truck.

Basically, what they don't want you to do is put them in bags to go out with the rest of your garbage.