What if you could use a new technology to divert 7 million tons of New York City's organic waste per year from local landfills, using it instead to generate electricity, while preventing the release of 1.8 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? What if that same technology allowed farmers to use farm waste to generate renewable energy while protecting nearby rivers and streams?

Waste=Fuel reaches stakeholders in the food, waste, and energy industries. In particular, this initiative targets the hospitality industry, solid waste industry, energy suppliers, renewable energy investors, natural gas vehicle developers, academic institutions, and federal, state, and local agencies.

Waste=Fuel Objectives

  • Demonstrate the environmental and social benefits of AD application to private and public sector communities.
  • Encourage the adoption of AD technology by large-scale producers of organic waste.
  • Work with cities and municipalities to create incentives around the adoption of AD
  • Use AD to divert 7 million tons of organic waste annually in New York City, generating 1.4 billion kilowatt hours of renewable electricity and preventing the release of 1.8 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Benefits of Anaerobic Digestion

  • Substantially reduces greenhouse gas emissions, odor and other pollutants from food and organic wastes
  • Is a source of renewable energy: 1 ton of organic waste generates over 200 kilowatt-hours of electricity-a day.s supply for an average of 10 households
  • Creates a pathogen-free, humus like fertilizer, superior to chemical fertilizers
  • Reduces food waste volume by over 60 percent
  • Is compact and sanitary, making it ideal for use in urban areas
  • Employs a proven technology, with numerous facilities in operation since the late 1970s and close to one hundred more that have been constructed since the early 1990s
  • Diverts municipal wastes from landfills, reducing the amount of fuel used and pollution generated by waste transportation.
  • Enables communities to recycle and reuse waste locally