The project organisers hope it is a meal that will stick in the students' minds and, ultimately, help take a bite out of the city's food waste mountain.

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Residents opting out of the payment scheme would have to compost or take their garden waste to a waste recycling centre.

BBC: Poole council's free garden waste collection to be axed

After installing a solar panel, "it would take one to three months of generating electricity to pay off the energy invested in driving those hazardous waste emissions out of state, " said Dustin Mulvaney, a San Jose State University environmental studies professor who conducts carbon footprint analyses of solar, biofuel and natural gas production.

NPR: Solar Industry Grapples With Hazardous Wastes