By Dave Copeland
Boston Globe Correspondent October 27, 2008

Boston company's organic fertilizer is made from food

Public school officials in Gonzales, Calif., hope food waste from school cafeterias will end up on the athletic fields, starting next year.

The 2,200-student school system is working with Converted Organics Inc., a five-year-old Boston company, to have leftover and discarded food hauled away and converted into fertilizer at the company's facility in nearby Salinas. The fertilizer will be used on playing fields, in town parks, and in the rural school district's bustling agricultural and science programs.

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