"Those carrot tops you've lopped off are not garbage. Your snapped-off
green-bean stems are not scraps. They are what Thomas McQuillan,
sustainability director for
Baldor, a specialty foods and produce
distributor, calls sparcs — "scraps" spelled backward and pronounced
like "sparks." And sparcs, despite popular assumption, are often just as
edible as the rest of the fruit or vegetable.
The company, which provides produce and specialty goods such as caviar
and olive oil to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast's food-service industry,
no longer produces any organic food waste as of this year, thanks to
some clever reuse initiatives."
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Source: Chicago Tribune, 11/7/17
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