I would be more interested in finding out more about why wine lees would be a pollutant. Shouldn’t it just naturally biodegrade into compost? I find myself getting frustrated at time when it comes...
I would be more interested in finding out more about why wine lees would be a pollutant. Shouldn’t it just naturally biodegrade into compost?
I find myself getting frustrated at time when it comes to reporting on food waste. It’s one thing if food is being wasted as in there are hungry people who missed out on eating. But in the big picture food really doesn’t ever get wasted. It just gets turned into soil which becomes the food that food eats. In that respect the bigger problem is that food waste goes into landfills rather than being separated into a different pile so it can be properly composted and used for farming.
So I read a couple of articles about wine lees, and apparently they are too dense? biologically and according to current regulations you can't just dump them. There was no composting talk, but I...
So I read a couple of articles about wine lees, and apparently they are too dense? biologically and according to current regulations you can't just dump them. There was no composting talk, but I think it's a case of needing to have a ton of other things to get good compost
There are also a lot of things that can be extracted and refined from lees, but although it wasn't mentioned, I'm imagining cost is the main factor
I would be more interested in finding out more about why wine lees would be a pollutant. Shouldn’t it just naturally biodegrade into compost?
I find myself getting frustrated at time when it comes to reporting on food waste. It’s one thing if food is being wasted as in there are hungry people who missed out on eating. But in the big picture food really doesn’t ever get wasted. It just gets turned into soil which becomes the food that food eats. In that respect the bigger problem is that food waste goes into landfills rather than being separated into a different pile so it can be properly composted and used for farming.
So I read a couple of articles about wine lees, and apparently they are too dense? biologically and according to current regulations you can't just dump them. There was no composting talk, but I think it's a case of needing to have a ton of other things to get good compost
There are also a lot of things that can be extracted and refined from lees, but although it wasn't mentioned, I'm imagining cost is the main factor
You are right that it is not like plastic.