But now there are eager customers for her rotting tomatoes: A herd of 20 meandering camels, brought in from arid northern Kenya to act as garbage disposals for the market's food waste. The market's new low-carbon food waste recycling system is the work of Stephen Kariuki, who owns the animals and herds them through the market each morning. "But nobody is interested in rotting food." "Camels also like the fleshy market waste which they seem to like more than the parched arid vegetation." Market traders can face fines of up to $1 a day for dumping their rotting wares, she said.

Source: The Star February 07, 2017 11:46 UTC