It was kind of a human interest type story. I read it online. The gist is that some producer of a citrus product was dumping his spent rinds by the ton down some side road. I don’t remember what country this was in. Anyway, local somebody decided after years of dumping that it was going to create an ecological disaster. Punch line is that the dumping guy went back years later out of curiosity, and there was a lush rain forest as a result.
Of course, anybody else’s vaguely remembered stories are more than welcome 
I have a vague memory of a fable like this.
But it was olive pits being spit across a small stream by gypsy’s.
The locals were grossed out. Olives were removed from the market. Gypsy’s were run out of the area.
All was forgotten and years later a huge olive grove was discovered and the little village was put on the map because of their great olive oil production.
Of course that’s nothing but made-up hard-right glurge that efforts at pollution control or of adverse consequence mitigation in general are always foolish because in one contrived (and utterly fake) situation, somehow something good happened many, many years later.
Nonsense from end to end.
Might be thinking of this:
Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest.
That was it. Thanks!
So a fruit company got permission to dump tons of orange peels on barren ground, got sued by a jealous competitor so they had to stop, and 30 years later plants are growing there? There’s a real lesson to be learned there about grant money.
So…the moral of my fable is “Spit or Shit”
I’m sure such glurge does happen.
But in this case, the orange peels seem to have been dumped there by the advice of, instead of counter to the advice of, trained conservationists. And the conservationists seem to have been right – in this particular case, applying that particular amount of orange peels to that particular area was a good idea. (Applying more might not have been, of course; though the story in @Dorjan’s link (which, to be fair, was after your post) reads as if additional suitable land was available. And applying something else might or might not have been a good idea. The specific situation matters.)