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Toronto, Canada’s biggest city, creates vast amounts of waste. Vast tonnes of that is food and organic waste.
While this traditionally has gone into the ever-increasing mountains of landfill waste, a new plan is to use some of that organic waste and turn it into fuel for the very trucks that collect the waste.
Organic waste will be converted into biogas to fuel some of the city trucks and to heat homes connected to natural gas lines.
As part of a long-term plan begun years ago, many of the city’s diesel-powered garbage trucks have already been replaced by ones running on natural gas. An anaerobic facility has been built to convert organic waste into a solid and renewable natural gas (RNG). It is one of the first in N. America to use the anaerobic method to convert waste food and organic material into RNG. A second location in the city has the anaerobic technology in place but will be upgraded to convert the created gas into RNG.
Quoted by the CBC, Carlyle Khan, director of infrastructure and resources management at the City of Toronto said, “It’s exactly the same as the human body. Ground up food goes into your stomach and then your intestines, the material starts to break down in the absence of oxygen. It results in the production of a solid or gas.”
The project won an Energy Vision award last year in Manhattan.
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