Dive Brief:
- South San Francisco Scavenger Company, a solid waste and recycling services provider, announced a partnership with a waste facility to convert food scraps into fuel.
- The facility uses a cutting-edge dry anaerobic digestion technology to convert compost into CNG.
- San Francisco, CA-based firm will use trash processed at the plant to create compressed natural gas (CNG) to fuel its fleet of garbage trucks
Dive Insight:
The president of the South San Francisco Scavenger Company, Doug Button, touts the facility as the first to produce compressed natural gas instead of methane and says that the digester is a true “closed loop system.”
The anaerobic digester can potentially produce 11,200 tons of compostable materials every year and is capable of creating up to 55 “diesel gallon equivalents” of CNG on a daily basis. On top of that, the process also creates digestate, a component of rich compost.
