Living in the desert of Las Vegas and work I g in a casino that separates food waste from plastics and other wastes; I often wonder if the food waste in high amounts could give life to the soil or would it just be a biohazard to try to mix it into the earth to bring back nutrients.

Question

Was wondering if deep trenches where filled out in the desert with food bio-waste. Could we perform small scale terra-forming? Would it just end up creating a mess. Kinda wonder of we could even bank away useable biomass in the deserts even.

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Answer 1

Lots of bio material can change an ecosystem for the better.

Here’s a story from Costa Rica where they dumped 1,000 truckloads of orange peels into a thin, sickly looking forest.

Once they all decomposed, all the biomatter turned to forest lush and green.

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined