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 [...]

When we think about food waste we often focus on the final stage of the life cycle, the landfill. Although keeping food waste out of the landfill is beneficial, this is just a small portion of the total environmental impact. From cultivation to disposal there are impacts throughout the entire chain. In a recent article [...]

There has been a lot of focus in recent months on using food waste as a feedstock to generate energy through anaerobic digestion. Several major players are working on this, including Waste Management via their investment in Harvest Power. This week a Northwest company announced plans to build a food waste biogas facility in Portland. [...]

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 [...]