For a spa snack, Ms. Thomas often sips organic tea with hints of cinnamon, black currants and orange peels.

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The process works at 90 percent efficiency, and it can be used on a variety of plant waste beyond orange peels.

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Orange peels are particularly good for this technique because they are rich in a key chemical, d-limonene, which is also an ingredient in many cleaning products and cosmetics.

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Orange peels and scraps of paper littered the hallway.

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The first column I wrote for FORBES was about fund managers' being swept out into New York Bay mumbling Computer Technology, Parvin Dohrmann and Four Seasons as their heads bobbed between the floating orange peels.

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While Ms. Tang and the rest of the lonely hearts club flock to the do-it-yourself furniture shop for its clean, homey environment, they pose something of a challenge for IKEA. They sit for hours in the cafeteria, leaving behind orange peels and egg shells they have picked off boiled eggs brought from home.

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Common choices are orange or lemon peels, cardamom pods, coriander, licorice and so on.

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