Cutting food waste and distributing the world's surplus food could help tackle hunger in some places.

减少食物浪费和分发世界上多余的食物可以帮助解决一些地方的饥饿问题。

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Landfills are places to dump waste, but they are unpopular because they can pollute the soil used to cover them.

垃圾填埋场用于倾倒垃圾。但因为覆盖在垃圾上的土壤会受到污染，所以垃圾填埋场的使用并不广泛。

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With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

去年，在一些地方，每公吨化肥的价格上涨了近50%，因此人类粪便也就成了一个有吸引力、通常也是必要的替代品。

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And the waste produced by the islands' growing human population places an increased threat on the wildlife.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

In some places less waste is being created in the first place.

ECONOMIST: Talking rubbish

The company has a distinctive core business: rather than dealing with middlemen, it deals directly with 250, 000 suppliers and thereby squeezes out some of the waste that hobbles farming in poor places.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

The report also highlights better use of collection sites and designated places for residents to drop-off bags of waste if the need arose.

BBC: Household rubbish piled up outside a house in Cheltenham