Food Waste = Jet Fuel? Yes!

David Steiner, Waste Management's CEO, gives Melissa McGinnis a tour of their CORE program and facility. The first of its kind in the US, this anaerobic converter takes food waste and meticulously converts it into energy. The end result now is energy for electricity, but the long term plan is to be able to convert food waste into jet fuel!

All from our left-over food!

In this video you'll join Melissa in the city of Orange today in California as she takes you on a tour of this brand new innovative concept called The Core program. It's the only program in the United State like it and here's what Waste Management's CEO David Steiner has to say about it:

Imagine if one day you could run your busses, your transportation fleet on the very waste that you're community is creating. That's pretty cool. A lot of people think with the food waste, "Well you just take it and macerate it and blah blah blah." And then you find out the chemistry and find out how difficult it is. People are learning. We're learning and we're taking technology that people have used in Europe in years and we're improving on it. The lowest use is obviously going to the landfills. The good news about food waste or yard waste going to a landfill is that it creates methane gas where we could get energy out of. That's getting the least energy content. And then you step up to here where you're getting a much higher energy content. The next generation will then take care of what they'll get out here—maybe put some back end process onto this or you could do some other process. It's great fuel. Once you do that then you'll get a real lot of the energy content out of it.

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[MrSouthphillyitalian]

you're beautiful

[williamkendrick]

trust amecia to use its own shit to fuel its cars.

[Kettlebull]

Not very specific but I like the thought. Check out Kompogas in Europe for more in-depth information about this type of process.