Dive Brief:
- Cenergy USA, a sustainable development firm, created compost made from digested organic waste.
- Animal manure, slaughterhouse waste, vegetables and fruit are used to make the potting soil replacement, Magic Dirt.
- A DVO company spokesperson said the difference between DVO digester system and continuous stirred tank reactor digesters is the plug flow design, mixing, and heating system that achieves 20 to 30 percent more biogas.
Dive Insight:
The peat alternative was formulated by the president of Cenergy, Robert Joblin and his business partner Ted Sniegocki, who developed the product while trying to come up with a commercial use for the fiber in the DVO digesters.
