{"id":3326,"date":"2013-07-29T23:22:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T03:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2021-11-20T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:43:12","slug":"turning-food-waste-into-energy-an-exciting-new-state-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/turning-food-waste-into-energy-an-exciting-new-state-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Food Waste Into Energy \u2013 an Exciting New State Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organic matter makes up one-quarter of our waste; it is currently being landfilled or incinerated.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a new alternative for this waste: anaerobic digestion. \u00a0Anaerobic digestion is a technology that produces biogas from organic matter, which can then be used to generate electricity.<\/p>\n<p>New state regulations, which take effect next July, ban hospitals, universities, hotels, and large restaurants \u2014 about 1,700 businesses and institutions \u2014 from discarding food waste in the trash.\u00a0 Instead, this food waste will be sent to newly constructed\u00a0anaerobic digester plants located throughout the state, which will convert it into energy and then feed that energy into the power grid.<\/p>\n<p>State officials say that the food waste ban will be a crucial component of their overall efforts to reduce the waste stream by 30% by 2020 and by 80% by 2050.\u00a0 The plan is to expand the program over time to include smaller businesses, and eventually, residential food waste.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2013\/07\/21\/new-industry-emerges-state-prepares-ban-commercial-food-waste\/5oQrf2eCYJE9CvgYNPqIfP\/story.html\">Read more \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organic matter makes up one-quarter of our waste; it is currently being landfilled or incinerated.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a new alternative for this waste: anaerobic digestion. \u00a0Anaerobic digestion is a technology that produces biogas from organic matter, which can then be used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,53,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-waste-tzw","category-renewable-energy","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}