As a product of a public-private partnership between the University of California Davis campus and the California Energy Commission, the city of Sacramento now houses the Sacramento biodigester, a report from the Huffington Post says. The digester diverts 40,000 tons of food waste from landfills.
The waste is being converted into fuel, which will fuel waste disposal trucks, fleet vehicles and school buses, the report says. The companies that helped open the biodigester are CleanWorld, Gold River, California, and Atlas Disposal Industries, Sacramento, California.
Atlas Disposal collects organic waste from restaurants, supermarkets, food processing companies and homes and brings it to Sacramento's South Area Transfer Station, where it is converted into fuel through anaerobic digestion. The collection company also uses this resource as fuel for its own fleets.
The project has cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5,800 tons per year, the report says.
