041 Food waste
This revolting looking mess is food waste.
The Council collection vans collect it from our homes and deliver it to a local anaerobic recycling facility. It gets churned through an Archimedes screw, the plastic bags are extracted using a centrifuge, it's macerated, and then fed through into huge tanks where it is digested just like food in our stomachs.
The methane gas produced is then converted into electricity and fed into the National Grid. The liquid sludge is pasteurised and sold onto farmers as a highly nutrient rich fertiliser. The plastic waste is sent for burning at another energy extraction facility.
#41 Earth Day for the group challenge 118 photos in 2018
Guess who went on a tour there today :) And yes I'm told it smelt revolting!
041 Food waste
This revolting looking mess is food waste.
The Council collection vans collect it from our homes and deliver it to a local anaerobic recycling facility. It gets churned through an Archimedes screw, the plastic bags are extracted using a centrifuge, it's macerated, and then fed through into huge tanks where it is digested just like food in our stomachs.
The methane gas produced is then converted into electricity and fed into the National Grid. The liquid sludge is pasteurised and sold onto farmers as a highly nutrient rich fertiliser. The plastic waste is sent for burning at another energy extraction facility.
#41 Earth Day for the group challenge 118 photos in 2018
Guess who went on a tour there today :) And yes I'm told it smelt revolting!