Garb-el Products Company is excited to announce its participation in the nation's first commercial high-solid organic waste conversion facility located at American River Packaging's (ARP) Sacramento, CA headquarters.
The Clean World Organic Waste Recycling Center is based on anaerobic digestion technology developed by UC Davis professor Ruihong Zhang with support and research provided by the California Energy Commission, CalRecycle along with private financial support. This technology converts food waste, agricultural residue and other organic waste into renewable energy, fertilizer and soil enhancements. As part of this project, Clean World Partners (CWP) sought to find a field proven, energy efficient and economical pre-processing grinder to break down the feedstock before introducing it into the digester tanks.
CWP researched several companies prior to contacting Garb-el with varying degrees of succcess. The primary stubling block to locating the right technology seemed to be finding a piece of equipment capable of efficiently handling not only the food waste, but also the unrecyclable corrugated waste from ARP.
"After speaking with CWP about the specific details of the project with respect to feedstock volume, expected throughput and desired particulate to water ratio, we were able to design a complete front-end pre-processing system capable of handling both the food and cardboard waste," said James M. Carbone Jr., President, Garb-el Products Company.
The anaerobic digestion system at ARP will convert 7.5 tons per day of food waste and a half ton each day of unrecyclable corrugated cardboard material into renewable natural gas. The system will generate 1,300 kWh of renewable energy per day, meeting approximately 37 percent of ARP’s electricity needs and diverting an estimated 2,900 tons of waste from entering landfills each year.
“CWP has taken a progressive and innovative approach to the anaerobic digestion model, and we were proud to partner with them on this exciting project,” said Carbone.
