Dive Summary:
- Stemming from Massachusetts' impending statewide ban on commercial food waste, state agencies, municipalities and companies have started building food waste-to-energy facilities.
- Harvest Power is in talks to build a landfill in Bourne, Mass., and is planning six related projects across the state, while NEO Energy has secured agreements to construct two plants, with more projects in the works.
- Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources is giving $3 million in loans to private corporations and $1 million to public companies in order to facilitate the creation of more anaerobic digesters.
From the article:
... Officials say the food waste ban will be a crucial component in overall efforts to reduce the waste stream by 30 percent by 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050.
State officials intend to eventually apply the ban to residential food waste, though they will not say when that will happen.
“It appears to us that this new industry is taking off,” said Ken Kimmell, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection. ...
