YanziAug 21, 2024
Wokebloke for Democracy
"The plan, which saw a juice company dump 1,000 truckloads of waste orange peel in a barren pasture in Costa Rica back in the mid 1990s, has eventually revitalised the desolate site into a thriving, lush forest."
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined
#Compost #Bioremediation #CostaRica #Nature
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.

ScienceAlert
Aug 20, 2024 at 8:50pmWeb
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@dougiec3 @BroadforkForVictory
Someone pointed out they should have done a control with different organic matter. There might well be nothing special about orange leftovers.

Edit: that come across as somewhat nitpicky, it wasn't intended to be a criticism of the act.

Show threadWokebloke for DemocracyAug 22, 2024
@econads @BroadforkForVictory
If not, all the better, but there's a lot of empty orange peel created every day. What do oj manufacturers do with it?
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@dougiec3 @BroadforkForVictory municipal waste?
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@econads @dougiec3 @BroadforkForVictory
It sounds like the experiment they did was hard enough to pull off that asking for better controls is too much. Now if someone else wants to replicate the experiment, they should definitely think hard about controls.