When it comes to recycling, most people at least know how to dispose of things like plastic and aluminum. Food waste however, is another story.
It’s not that old food items can’t be used in other ways. It’s just much more difficult for recycling companies to sort through food waste when it’s usually combined with other things like paper plates and plastic spoons.
That’s where Harvest Power comes in. The company is able to turn food waste into energy. And it doesn’t need the food to be already sorted or “clean.”
Harvest Power’s anaerobic digesters can process large amounts of food waste mixed with things like oils and treated sewage.
That waste is then converted into usable energy. Currently, Harvest Power has a facility located at Walt Disney World in Florida. That facility processes the uneaten food waste at the parks and resorts and then sells it back to Disney as energy.
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