Food Waste Focus

Popular Science published a feature article in July 2011 titled “Are We Ignoring the Small but Brilliant Innovations That Could Bridge the Energy Gap?“   The piece focuses on the benefit of using food waste (and other organic waste) to produce biogas, an important energy source. According to the article, the American Biogas Council estimates the [...]

We’ve written in the past about “Green Garbage Disposers” and continue to follow this topic closely.  The basic concept is that food waste can be ground into fine particles by a commercial garbage disposal, sent into a waste water treatment system, and then this organic material can be converted at the waste water treatment plant [...]

As a follow-up to my recent summary on the environmental profile of garbage disposers, I wanted to share news from the South Bayside System Authority.  This agency provides wastewater treatment services to a good chunk of the San Francisco Peninsula in California.  Interestingly, they have concluded that use of garbage disposers  to handle food waste provides [...]