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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

How Canada’s tar sands capital turns trash into vegetables

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The Canadian city best known as the epicenter of dirty tar sands oil is trying to green up its image by turning trash into vegetables for local food banks and farmers markets. McMurray, a city of about 60,000 people in Northern Alberta, is now producing lettuce and herbs via a process called containerized aquaponics – and the system will soon be totally powered by gasified garbage from the local landfill.


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