Using Technology to Combat Food Waste

Grocers are increasingly citing food waste management as a focus of their business as they seek to make their business more sustainable. Choosing the…

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. […]

Digester: Microorganisms & Enzymes Make Life Possible

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IN DEPTH: To digest here or there?

UK government body, the Environment Agency (EA), recently changed its policy on the use of food waste management systems in the foodservice sector. On-site treatment at foodservice sites now no longer needs a permit, offering a practical alternative where off-site anaerobic digestion cannot take place. So, what do food waste treatment system manufacturers think of […]

IoT Smart, Sustainable Food Waste Management Solution

A technology-based waste disposal machine uses IoT technologies and natural breakdown processes to reduce and prevent food waste with the goal of creating a zero-landfill environment. November 19, 2020 Author: Susan Biagi Trash is big business. Americans discard about 140 million tons of waste every year, and nearly 22 percent of that is food waste, according […]

How Hospitals Can Help Patients and the Planet

As climate change moves from a model of the future to the reality of the present, health care systems across the country are facing a difficult set of questions. What are doctors supposed to do when wildfires, rising floodwater or other natural disasters threaten their ability to provide care for patients? How can these institutions […]