They Left 12,000 Tons of Orange Peels in a Barren Field — What Happened 16 Years Later Stunned Scientists
How a Mountain of Orange Peels Turned a Barren Costa Rican Field into a Thriving Forest In a remote corner of Costa Rica’s Guanacaste Conservation Area, something extraordinary was quietly unfolding — though no one realized it at first. Sixteen years earlier, an orange juice company had dumped thousands of tons of leftover orange peels …