Jul 7 2010
Cedar Grove Composting, an organic recycling company that converts leaves, food waste, grass, yard trimmings into nutrient value rich manure has announced its plan to function along with BioFerm Energy Systems, a German company owned by the Viessmann Group to incorporate anaerobic digestion into its fertilizer manufacture.
This technology employs a high-solids anaerobic digester to speed up the natural process of converting food scrap and yard trappings into functional biogas. This can be used for running automobiles or producing electricity. When the project is entirely operational the digester is expected to produce an annual energy equivalent to the electricity consumption of 400 homes or supplement the fuel usage for 1000 automobiles per year.
CEO of Cedar Grove Composting Steve Banchero, highlighted the sustained efforts of the company in converting trash into green energy and the expertise and focus of the company in striving to achieve zero waste by completely reusing, recycling or composting all materials.
Banchero further detailed how the company researched the technology used in Europe and its future plans with BioFerm in producing green energy from garbage conforming to US standards. He was optimistic about the market potential for the product and planning to start the project in a small way to test its worth in the system available with the company.
Cedar Grove’s plan of converting waste food into energy will help in the reduction of green house gases, cut down the mass of landfills with food wastes and facilitate to save the landfill space for the products that has no use. More over Cedar Grove’s current technology of making energy from food scraps and yard wastes brings out comparatively cleaner fuel than the methane gas currently developed from waste food landfills.
Source: http://www.cgcompost.com