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TexasTowelie

(112,204 posts)
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:11 PM May 2019

Utah's rotten, stinky food can now be transformed into natural gas and fertilizer.

Utah’s rotten, stinky food can now be transformed into natural gas and fertilizer. Grocery stores and restaurants rejoice.


North Salt Lake • Imagine Utah as home to a voracious beast, able to consume 5 million gallons of food scraps — from rotten lettuce and rancid hamburger to spoiled milk and dirty frying oil.

What if this giant creature could grind and liquefy the waste, keeping it out of landfills and turning it into useful products such as natural gas and fertilizer?

This animal isn’t make-believe. It exists and is just waiting to be fed the stinkiest, sourest, most disgusting leftovers the state can scrape off its plates.

Utah’s first anaerobic food digester revved up in late February and, as of last week, was taking in about 100,000 gallons of food waste a day — one-third its capacity.

Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/05/27/utahs-rotten-stinky-food/
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Utah's rotten, stinky food can now be transformed into natural gas and fertilizer. (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP
did it used to be transformed into mitt romney, trump's lap dog? nt msongs May 2019 #1
In Utah, it will have to digest a lot of green Jello Salad :) Thunderbeast May 2019 #2
Oh like in Troll 2, which coincidentally was filmed in Utah. Crowman2009 May 2019 #3
Nilbog? That's goblin spelled backwards! Salviati May 2019 #4

Crowman2009

(2,497 posts)
3. Oh like in Troll 2, which coincidentally was filmed in Utah.
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:57 PM
May 2019

I bet finding out that fact makes you wanna say...

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