Personal Consumer Issues • Food Recycling Bin

The goal here it to remove food waste from the landfill stream, where it will generate methane for decades that is 85x as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2. While I agree with the motivation, the solution seems unpleasant to say the least.

There are days when I am very glad for my in sink garbage dispose-all.

If you talk to the engineers that run sewage treatment plants, they explain that the bacteria there require food, and employ residential food waste put into the stream. If there is not enough 'food', the engineers have to add some substrate, which costs money. And, importantly, they aerate the system to prevent methane generation.

IOW, we already have a highly effective and climate friendly food waste disposal system in place in most cities. Its called the sewage system.

But most people decide that things are 'good' or 'bad' based upon hearsay and their intuition, and the idea that well engineered sewage treatment plants (or a food free landfill) are good things falls on deaf ears. In 10 years, composting facilities will be the new villains.

Statistics: Posted by just frank — Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:18 am — Replies 14 — Views 704

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