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Fundación Basura

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🇨🇱 Chile

At Chile's open-air street markets, a nonprofit sends unsold fruit and vegetables to soup kitchens and compost heaps instead of landfills, where they would rot into methane.

33tonnesMarket food waste recovered, total
2tonnes CH4Methane (CH4) avoided, as counted by the foundation
20tonnes CO2CO2 avoided, as counted by the foundation
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