Anaerobic Digestion

The Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority has completed construction of a new Food2Energy/Source Separated Organics Processing Facility.

The waste processing facility in Hampden, Maine, is on schedule for full commercial operations by July 1.

Micron’s commercial organic waste digester unit can process food and cannabis waste on a commercial scale.

Residents can drop off food waste, where it is then turned into energy via anaerobic digestion.

The company will build roughly 35 percent of the market’s new stations and service approximately 12 percent of gasoline gallon equivalents used across the U.S. this year.

Once fully operational, the 144,000-square-foot plant will make clean cellulose, biogas, plastic products and fuel from plastics.

Hartford, Conn.-based Blue Earth Compost paves the way for Connecticut’s growing food waste revolution.

The plant will process 1,000 tons per day of food waste and biosolids that will be shipped to Rialto from outlying areas. Final products will include electricity and pipeline-injected RNG.

Currently, the system can process 165 tons per day of source separated food waste and should be able to digest 300 to 550 tons per day by 2020.