At the facility, your apple core is mixed with all of the garbage and is dumped into a landfill.
Your apple core decomposes over the course of a month as the garbage around it remains intact.
In a landfill, food waste such as your apple core will break down and produce methane.
Thanks to people like you, 33 million tons of food waste make their way into landfills every year.
It is estimated that food waste costs 1.3 billion dollars to dispose into land fills each year.
Food waste breaks down anaerobically and produces methane, which is more than 20 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas!