{"id":22645,"date":"2020-09-01T07:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T04:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=22645"},"modified":"2020-08-31T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:00:37","slug":"study-wastewater-treatment-plants-could-profit-by-processing-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/environmental-news-en\/study-wastewater-treatment-plants-could-profit-by-processing-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Wastewater treatment plants could profit by processing food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>A new report issued by the California Environmental Protection Agency shows that at least half of California\u2019s landfill-bound food waste could be processed at the state\u2019s wastewater treatment plants and serve as an innovative power source. Waste can be \u201cco-digested\u201d at these facilities, which involves adding organic wastes including municipal food scraps and industrial food processing wastes such as chicken blood to a facility\u2019s anaerobic digester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe release this report just as California is experiencing the very real impacts of climate change,\u201d said Jared Blumenfeld, California\u2019s Secretary for Environmental Protection. \u201cAs our environmental problems become more tangled, we have to start planning for cross-cutting solutions like this. Co-digestion can be a triple threat against climate change: it can reduce organic waste in landfills while cutting greenhouse gas emissions and helping to clean wastewater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report estimates the statewide capital investments required to use the co-digestion capacity range between $900 million and $1.4 billion. The net benefits to the state could be up to $255 million each year. Maximizing co-digestion capacity could reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 2.4 million metric tons of CO2-equivalent per year. That\u2019s more than half of the emissions from landfills that California committed to reducing by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterworld.com\/wastewater\/treatment\/press-release\/14182615\/study-wastewater-treatment-plants-could-profit-by-processing-food-waste\">Waterworld<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report issued by the California Environmental Protection Agency shows that at least half of California\u2019s landfill-bound food waste could be processed at the&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[6708,190,256],"class_list":["post-22645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","tag-co-digestion","tag-food-waste","tag-wastewater","wpcat-31-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/appetizer-1846083_1280.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22647,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645\/revisions\/22647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}