EPA Announces Award Funding for 12 Anaerobic Digestion Projects

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a new round of monetary awards for 12 anaerobic digestion projects across the U.S. The projects are all focused on reducing food waste, and are in the following states: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.

Here’s a look at three of the award recipients:

Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.): The university plans to establish a prototype on campus as a demonstration site for “how to design anaerobic digestion that eliminates environmental justice concerns while demonstrating a solution for increasing anaerobic digestion of food waste that can be replicated by universities, corporations, local communities and governments.”

Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.): The college’s project aims to advance co-digestion of food waste in small-scale farm digesters in the Mid-Atlantic region and nationally.
“The cornerstone of the project is a co-digestion demonstration for a diary digester scaled to regionally common farm size of less than 150 cows. The project is significant because there is currently no cost-effective model for digester operation on farms with less than 500 cows.”

North Central Texas Council of Governments (Arlington, Texas): The council plans to coordinate with stakeholders in the North Central Texas region to complete a food-waste-to-fuel feasibility study.

The awards total $3 million and are part of the Winning on Reducing Food Waste Initiative, a partnership between the EPA, USDA and Food and Drug Administration.

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