NYC Program Ramps Up Effort to Convert Food Waste Into Biogas

A New York City treatment plant is slowly increasing its appetite for food waste to be converted to biogas for delivery to the natural gas grid
NYC Program Ramps Up Effort to Convert Food Waste Into Biogas
So far, gas production at Newtown Creek has increased by 23 percent with the addition of food waste.

Three years into a pilot program aimed at keeping food out of landfills, New York City is making slow but steady progress.

From 1.5 tons of food waste per day when the initiative began in 2013, the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant now accepts some 20 tons per day,...

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