Composting has become a common method of recycling food as fertilizer or soil amendment.

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He doesn't accept the view, common among the utopians, that natural endowments like soil and water explain why rich nations are 50 times as prosperous as poor ones.

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They have already made common cause on land sales, shouting and singing patriotic songs in parliament in defence of the soil.

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