It has been three years since a project to grow vegetables using compost made of untreated garbage from local supermarkets, school lunches and restaurants was started in Nagoya.
Vegetables produced by area farmers under the "Okaeri Yasai" (welcome-home vegetables) project are now growing steadily across the city and have been served in several local schools.
The project started in February 2008, a decade after the city declared an emergency on the state of its garbage. It aims to reduce the level of refuse drastically and make Nagoya a recycling-based society.