Synopsis
Dr Tara Shine discusses the renewable possibilities of composting food waste.
- Programme: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
- Series: 2020: Planet Earth - A User's Guide
- Episode: Up in the Air
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2020
- Geography | Rural environments | Farming | Farming and the environment
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