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With more than 75,000 deer killed by motorists on New York roads each year, the problem of what to do with road kill is a big headache — and expense — for highway officials.

Now, Cornell scientists, teaming up with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), are testing a promising and effective new method of disposal: composting.

Using a simple composting technique, the Cornell Waste Management Institute (CWMI) discovered it takes about a year to turn deer carcasses into compost that can be used for landscaping purposes along the very roadsides that were the animals’ death sites. The cost of composting a deer: less than $25 a carcass.

Read the full article in the Cornell Chronicle Online:

With car-deer collisions on the rise, how to get rid of road kill? Cornell spearheads a $25 solution — composting

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