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Filling Up on Food Waste: A Shocking Realization

This is a link to a great blog on food waste from the Jewish Chronicle. It's good to remember that companies like Harvest Power aren't building organic waste processing plants simply to create energy. Food waste is an important natural hazard, just like ... Read >

Habits and Norms: From Recycling to Renewable Energy

I am the Engineering Designer for Harvest. That may sound dull, but it is not. I have a passion for honoring the resources provided by our one and only precious planet. My job at Harvest lets me live my passion even while I am at work. I believe that all... Read >

ADBA and UK Battle Over Biogas Tariffs

ENGLAND-The UK will institute a new system of tariffs for biogas and renewable heat. The program, which is modeled after a successful Canadian initiative, will index the tariffs with inflation to protect investors and-hopefully-boost earnings in the biofu... Read >

Montreal Will Build Four Organic Waste Plants

Canada continues to invest more funding into anaerobic digestion. Word broke today that the Canadian government, along with provincial and municipal bureaucracies, will partially fund four green infrastructure projects in the greater Montreal area. The fo... Read >

Anaerobic digestion goes mobile!

Yep, you read that right, an anaerobic digestion machine on wheels, as reported by the folks at Food Manufacture A mobile anaerobic digestion rig will be tested on a range of industrial effluents at a variety of food and drink manufacturing premises in... Read >

Wood Gasification…Electricity, Heat…CAR FUEL?

This awesome Volvo has been adapted by a fellow named Dutch John. Believe it or not, but if one were to load up that silver apparatus on the back with burning wood chips, this car could run for 60 miles off the fumes. That's about the range for an elect... Read >

UK Grocery Waste Goes Green

UK grocery powerhouse Sainsbury's signed a three-year-contract to send food waste from 40 of its stores to an anaerobic digestion facility run by the waste management firm Biffa, located in Leicestershire. And that's just the beginning. Biffa and Sains... Read >

From California to the UK, a Renewed Push for Biogas

The city of Modesto, CA will dump their recycling program for good at the end of the month. Yet one recent editorial posits that Modesto is one of the most forward-thinking green communities in America. The city of Modesto asks residents to separate thei... Read >

Harvest Power to receive investment from Canada’s Clean Energy Fund

The Canadian Government's Clean Energy Fund has announced that Harvest Power Canada, Ltd. has been selected to receive an investment in support of Harvest Power's proposed anaerobic digestion and renewable energy project at its Fraser Richmond subsidiary ... Read >

In Norfolk, One Biogas Facility Struggles to Find Public Support

A sort of European biogas arms race begins, as Britain continues to turn more attention to developing biogas power plants. Educating the public continues to be a huge factor, however, in approving new biogas technology in suburban and rural areas. The c... Read >

At a NYC Roundtable, Composting is Hot!

As a New York City resident and a member of the Harvest team, I was pleased to attend last week's roundtable discussion on food waste recycling in NYC hosted by NYSAR3. The speakers included Christine Datz-Romero from the Lower East Side Ecology Center, ... Read >

Why Landfills Can Be A Losing Proposition…

There has recently been a lot of discussion on Landfill Gas Capture (LFG). The gist: The material in a landfill is packed very tightly, which creates an anaerobic (no oxygen) environment. Some of the materials in landfills decay in this environment and... Read >

America Slowly Digests the Need for Biogas

In Minnesota, two state programs now encourage farmers to install methane digesters on their dairy farms. But despite the governmental push, farmers are slow to pick up technology. What makes the general public, or small business owners, slow to embra... Read >

Scotch Whisky to Energy? Scotland’s Famed Industry Looks to Alternative Energy

In Scotland, where the whiskey is king, a relatively new environmental technology-anaerobic digestion-may soon partner with the age-old method of distillery to satisfy much of the isle's energy needs. Bruichladdich Distillery, located on the isle of Is... Read >

Anaerobic Digestion – how does it work chemically?

Turning waste materials into energy is a fantastic way to produce renewable power - but how does it really work? The good news is that the process has been in operation for tens of millions of years - naturally - a variety of bacteria take long-chain hyd... Read >