Food waste is a fact of life, whether it be at home or during production. If a cookie manufacturer added baking powder instead of baking soda to its batter, that whole industrial batch of cookies would need to be discarded; that’s a lot of cookies that would be sent to the landfill instead of feeding those in need. For dairy farmers, manure presents some smelly challenges. As with food production and food waste, you can’t have dairy cows without manure. But there are several ways that farmers and food and beverage companies alike can handle their unavoidable waste. We believe that recycling them together through anaerobic digestion provides a sustainable solution for both. There are many benefits of recycling food and crop waste and cow manure through anaerobic digestion — creating positive impacts on waste management, renewable energy generation, greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and sustainable agriculture. More >>
