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Think about these two points real quick. Number one, topsoil is the most nutrient-dense layer of soil that's needed to grow nutritious fruits and vegetables

in.

But soil degradation around the world from agriculture practices like monocropping that

treats lands like a machine rather than a full, whole ecosystem, from deforestation,

and from climate change, these things have led to findings that we only have 60 years of

topsoil left. Definitely not sustainable. We are running out. And point number two, food scraps

can actually be composted to help regenerate healthy nutrient-dense soils. But most of our food

waste isn't being composted. In the United States, the EPA estimated in

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