At the core of Agri-Cycle’s goal of making food waste disposal sustainable is the anaerobic digestion process. You may have heard about anaerobic digestion (or AD) before, but what makes it better than just dumping it in the landfill or composting? Today we’re going to talk about what products come out of the AD process…
So, what is it like working with a food recycler? Today, we’d like to guide you on the road your food waste takes to be sustainably recycled into products like electricity and agricultural fertilizer. Check out our step-by-step process and its beginning, middle, and end, which continues the cycle. For our business partners with food…
At Agri-Cycle, our mission is to assist our clients in following the Food Recovery Hierarchy while diverting food waste from landfills and into green energy and healthy soils. We work with businesses and even cities to set up the collection of all their food waste and then take their food waste to anaerobic digestion facilities…
If your business or community has food waste, and you don’t want it ending up in a landfill, you’ll need to turn to a commercial solution (in scale, if not an actual third party) to deal with it. Most of these solutions will fall into the use of bacteria to break down this organic material…
In recent years we’ve seen food waste numbers jump – in 2018 alone, over 103 million tons were generated, according to the EPA. This is an environmental and economic tragedy. Food waste is an epidemic, from producers and manufacturers to grocers, restaurants, and cafeterias. However, this food waste can be disposed of sustainably. Let’s look…
Patty Wight of Maine Public Radio reports on how Agri-Cycle is partnering with ecomaine to reduce food waste. The USDA estimates that at least 30 percent of the nation’s food supply is wasted. A special machine at Agri-Cycle Energy removes the plastic bags, which are returned to ecomaine to be burned for electricity. The food…
WLBZ-TV2’s Kaitlyn Chana visited our Exeter facility to see the de-packager and learn about the services we offer businesses and institutions. Live shots started airing in both Bangor and on WCSH-TV6 in Portland at 5:30am. An early morning for sure! View this segment where Kaitlyn describes the de-packager and benefits to companies like Hannaford Supermarkets that is…
The WABI-TV5 news crew toured our facility to see the depackager in action. “Industry experts have estimated that 30 to 40 percent of that is currently being dumped in the landfills. That’s both a very powerful statistic and an opportunity missed–until now,” said Adam Wintle, managing partner of Exeter Agri-Energy. FMI: Click WABI-TV5 News to view.