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Skycraper Farm Recycles Garbage Into Edible Crops

First Posted: 10/17/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:25 PM ET

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Using trash to grow food isn't a new practice - composting, anyone? But Cypriot architect Luke Clayden's massive vertical bio-recycling plant brings the idea to a new level. Called the Bio-Diversity Project, the concept is to collect biodegradable post-consumer packaging (a.k.a. trash) that has been pre-laced with seeds, and "harvest" it in a skyscraper farm, where it can be sown into trees and edible crops.

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Using trash to grow food isn't a new practice - composting, anyone? But Cypriot architect Luke Clayden's massive vertical bio-recycling plant brings the idea to a new level. Called the Bio-Diversity P...
Using trash to grow food isn't a new practice - composting, anyone? But Cypriot architect Luke Clayden's massive vertical bio-recycling plant brings the idea to a new level. Called the Bio-Diversity P...
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Pema
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12:35 AM on 08/18/2010
everything is going vertical, i love it. i am excited to see where design goes in the next 10 years.
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Edward Fry
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04:42 PM on 08/17/2010
What the heck is a SkyCraper?
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