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How Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy

Season 2025 Episode 209 | 7m 04s

It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice cream factory and the operations next door to find out how it works.

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