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Will the term organic not imply that only organic food is recycled?
The meaning of recycling:food, recycling:organic and recycling:green_waste seems to be very similar: Collection things for recycing into biogas or compost. See wikipedia page about «Green waste». I assume that «organic» means «organic matter” as described in the «Organic matter» wikipedia article.
Organic food in English is food produced naturally without the use of chemical fertilizers, pest controls etc. It is a common term, and attracts a premium price. The French equivalent term is Bio.
Using the term Organic implies only Organically produced food can be recycled.
Thanks, I now understand better why some mappers use recycling:food instead of recycling:organic. What do you think about recycling:green_waste instead of recycling:food for collection waste that can be used for recycling to biogas or compost? recycling:green_waste seems to be the most common one for this kind of collection in osm (based on taginfo).
Green waste does make more sense, it is the term commonly used.
Food waste, alone, is a new one on me. The greatest volume of green waste generated comes from gardens, grass cuttings etc. Here we have a wheely bin for green waste, which we also put food waste into. These are commonly collected as part of household kerbside recycling collections.
Dedicated green waste is generally at larger recycling centres and is normally used when you have too much waste for the green bin collection, tree pruning. Very unlikely to be food waste.