Swette Center Postdoctoral Researcher Michelle Young’s blog Research Needed in Food Waste Co-digestion is featured on the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance site. Here, she explains that 30-40% of the U.S. food supply ends up as food waste, 76% of which is sent to landfills and accounts for one-third of landfill greenhouse gas emissions. Dr. Young suggests… Continue reading Research Needed in Food Waste Co-digestion
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Rittmann Lab Partners with City of Mesa for Food to Energy Feasibility Study
Postdoctoral Scientist Michelle Young, Masters Researcher Rick Kupferer, and Undergraduates Riley Tesman, Veronica Ayala Bojorquez, Aamena Mookadam, and Sam Utley are all part of a project that hopes to divert food waste from landfills into anaerobic sludge digesters that contain microbes that can transform it into a renewable energy source, biogas. Biogas can be cleaned… Continue reading Rittmann Lab Partners with City of Mesa for Food to Energy Feasibility Study