Category Archives: Energy

Digester Digest

British grocer Marks & Spencer is now powering a few of its stores with an anaerobic digester. The machine converts food waste to biogas, which it uses to create electricity. Plans are underway to build another, and the two digesters should power six stores. So don’t feel bad the next time you pay too much for the […]

November 8, 2007 | Also posted in Supermarket, Waste Stream | Comments closed

Digester Digest

Last week I got to visit the demonstration anaerobic digester in Davis, Calif., run by Onsite Power Systems. As discussed earlier, this process creates energy from food waste. It’s just across the tracks from U.C. Davis, housed at the university’s Waste Water Treatment Facility, which, nestled between the stables of the Center for Equine Health, has to […]

September 19, 2007 | Also posted in Waste Stream | Comments closed

U.K. A.D.

Anaerobic digestion getting a boost in Britain. The recycling advocate WRAP has pushed for the widespread adoption of the process that converts food waste (and anything organic) into energy. WRAP, or Waste & Resources Action Programme, has called for the installation of more digesters to process excess food. use of the process. It is now running […]

July 26, 2007 | Also posted in International, Waste Stream | Comments closed

Friday Digest

The Indian food digestion company that we talked about recently just won Britain’s Ashden Award for food security. The company, BIOTECH, has installed more than 12,000 biogas digesters that transform food waste to electricity. Best of all, the majority of these contraptions are at individual homes (closing that proverbial loop).  This technology, also called anaerobic digestion, […]

June 22, 2007 | Also posted in International, Waste Stream | Comments closed

Curry to Kilowatts

Food-to-energy schemes are fairly common around the globe. In the U.S., however, there are few anaerobic digesters that break down food waste and harness the gas released to power a generator.  The latest story to cross my desk is a company called Biotech, based in the South Indian state of Kerala. The company has made digesters for […]

June 11, 2007 | Also posted in International, Waste Stream | Comments closed