I just wanted to chime in and comment further on your statement. >that at smaller scales, composting isn't awful. And note that in cases like this, having wor

I just wanted to chime in and comment further on your statement. >that at smaller scales, composting isn't awful. And note that in cases like this, having worked on an organic fruit farm, it is often very difficult to actually compost the unused fruit seconds. Very acidic fruit in large quantities does not generally make for a good compost. It requires a lot more work to deal with a mountain of lemons for instance in a compost to get a usable soil composition. Most people don't ever encounter issues like this because a households normal compost is varied enough that you won't have this problem. A lot of times nothing will grow or you won't get a very good yield out of really acidic soil for the most part. All this is to say that the fruit in your example is probably literally being put to no purpose whatsoever and is almost assuredly not being composted.