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Apple Festival launches food waste recycling project

A food vendor serves a plate at the Apple Festival in 2012. This year the festival has banned Styrofoam as part of a food waste-to-compost project.

Henderson County and North Carolina Apple Festival officials say they expect to divert tons of food waste from the landfill this weekend through a pilot composting project.

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