WOODBRIDGE -- They may have looked sweet in produce bins at the local supermarket, but on the floor of a dank Woodbridge warehouse, all those apples, melons and other fruits amount to a pile of rotting, smelly garbage. Come next spring, that malodorous heap could be the fertilizer on your neighbor's plush, green lawn.

Converted Organics, a recycling company with a plant in Woodbridge's Keasbey section, receives more than 50 tons of food waste each week - everything from oldish fruits and vegetables to past-its-prime meat and fish - and uses it to produce solid and liquid fertilizer for retail sale.

Environmental officials say the firm is the only one of its kind in the state and, perhaps, the country, giving it some cutting-edge cachet in the decidedly unglamorous recycling field.To Edward Gildea, Converted Organics' chief executive officer, the company's work is a win-win green industry.

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Woodbridge recycling company turns food waste into fertilizer