Source: Tim Buckland, WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 12/14/17




The smell of the stuff serving as the first run of the county landfill’s new composting system hits you the second you step outside. “It’s rotten food. What do you expect?” said Joe Suleyman, director of environmental management for New Hanover County.The mix of food, animal waste and bedding straw -- described by Suleyman as resembling “red diarrhea” -- represents a pilot composting program the county has started taking food thrown away by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), mixed with animal waste...

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