Food waste in digesters

dc.contributor.author	Wright, Peter
dc.contributor.author	Gooch, Curt
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-18T16:52:16Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-18T16:52:16Z
dc.date.issued	2020-11
dc.description.abstract	Forty percent of food in this country is wasted. At the same time, nearly 2.8 million New Yorkers struggle to have enough to eat. Food also makes up 18 percent of New York State solid waste stream filling up landfills. The vast majority of this food is disposed of in landfills where it anaerobically decomposes, producing and releasing methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) with a global warming potential of about 34 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2). When food is landfilled or otherwise wasted, all the energy, water, nutrients, and labor it took to produce that food is wasted. If global food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of GHG after the United States and China. Several states including New York State have initiated regulations to recycle food waste.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Progressive Dairy and Papillon	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/102713
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Progressive Dairy	en_US
dc.subject	food	en_US
dc.subject	waste	en_US
dc.subject	digester	en_US
dc.subject	greenhouse	en_US
dc.subject	gas	en_US
dc.title	Food waste in digesters	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US
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