Bolton News Business Awards: Innovation Award Finalists

Market Place, Bolton A SHOPPING centre which found a sustainable solution to the problem of food waste is a finalist for the Innovation Award 2019. Market Place in Bolton underwent a multi-million pound redevelopment of its Grade 2 listed Victorian Market Hall and Vaults, reducing the loading bay and waste storage area by half to create new […]

BioHiTech to install aerobic digesters in 4 universities

BioHiTech Global Inc., a waste management technology and services company based in Chestnut Ridge, New York, says it has received orders for its Revolution Series Digesters from four universities located in the northeastern US. The company says it has completed several unit installations and expects to deliver a total of twelve digesters to the four […]

You think you have a recycling problem? Try Carnival’s 18M plastic yogurt cups at sea

The largest cruise company in the world is betting on a microscopic solution to fix its massive plastic pollution problem. It’s already happening deep in the bowels of the Carnival Victory ship, where hundreds of pounds of food waste churns inside an enormous stainless-steel machine 24-7. The leftover food, scraped from the plates of cruisers, […]

Carnival Corporation Pilots Food Waste Bio-Digester Technology

Carnival Corporation has announced that it is pilot-testing food waste bio-digester technology to improve environmental compliance and the food waste disposal process onboard its ships, and plans to expand the program across its fleet in the near future. According to Carnival, the technology provides a number of benefits, including: separating the small pieces of plastics […]

Carnival Corporation Pilots Food Waste Bio-Digesters

15 Carnival Corporation ships are testing food waste bio-digester machines that separate plastics from food waste while naturally breaking down the food. Throughout the day, as food scraps are added to the system, a mix of microorganisms, including microbes and enzymes, rapidly and naturally digest the organic waste. The machines operate 24 hours a day. […]