Sometimes, the produce a food bank collects goes bad before it can be distributed. What to do? In Michigan, Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank has partnered with NOVI Energy to produce electricity from this waste. The Fremont Community Digester can convert 100,000 tons of organic waste into 3 megawatts of electricity each year, enough to power 1,500 homes. Before the Digester opened for business in 2012, much of that waste was simply sent to the landfill. Today, it’s a different story. In June 2013, Feeding America West Michigan sent a semi-truck filled with 20,000 pounds of rotten strawberries, eggs and onions not to the landfill – but to the Fremont Community Digester where it became electricity.
Source: Feeding America, 2/5/12, Produce to Power
(In case you were wondering, at Foodshare our unusable produce is used for either animal food or compost.)
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