Agri-Cycle Energy has been around since 2011 and is growing and expanding every day. Keep reading to understand how we went from being a small-scale independent farm to how we scaled up to serving clients and partners across the Northeast! Agri-Cycle’s Unique Journey 2011 to 2014 Our early beginnings started with a farm and a…
Mitigating Concerns About Food Waste Smells: A Comprehensive Guide One of the most frequent concerns we hear from potential clients is about the smell associated with food waste. “Why does my food waste smell so bad? How can I handle this?” are questions we often encounter. These are valid concerns, and the good news is…
We’re always excited when we show up in the news, highlighted by one of our business partners as a critical part of their business. This time, a newsletter from America’s Test Kitchen caught our eye with a focus on what they are doing to be a greener and more sustainable business. Let’s not only go…
When we explain how we turn a business’s food waste into biogas and recyclable products, sooner or later the “other” organic part of the process (besides the bacteria) comes into the picture: cows. “But why cows?” some might ask. In this blog we’re going to dive into the food waste recycling process and why cows…
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…