{"id":1563,"date":"2005-08-28T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/08\/28\/trading-trash-for-fresh-vegetables\/"},"modified":"2005-08-28T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T15:31:00","slug":"trading-trash-for-fresh-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/trading-trash-for-fresh-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading Trash for Fresh Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nick at Triplepundit<\/a> is absolutely right that the Japanese seem to have a real knack for developing innovative and useful programs for promoting sustainable development. He takes note of Sendai City’s latest contribution:<\/p>\n [The city] will now offer about a dollar’s worth of fresh vegetables for every kilo of properly compressed organic waste citizens bring to a special marketplace in the city.<\/p>\n The waste is given to farmers who, in turn, grow more vegetables.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Can’t get much more simple. We’ll keep an eye on this to see how effective it is.<\/p>\n Technorati tags: trash<\/a>, innovation<\/a>, vegetables<\/a>, Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nick at Triplepundit is absolutely right that the Japanese seem to have a real knack for developing innovative and useful programs for promoting sustainable development. He takes note of Sendai [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n