The answer to keeping food waste out of municipal landfill sites may be as simple as a new countertop kitchen appliance.
Food Cycle Science (FCS) will appear before Deep River council tonight to ask the town to sign on to a pilot project for its kitchen “FoodCycler.”
About the size of a breadmaker, FCS says the FoodCycler can convert 2.5 to 5 litres of food waste into 100-200 grams of “dry, sterile, odourless and nutrient-rich biomass” overnight in a span of four to eight hours.
The “foodilizer” biomass can be added to garden soil, tossed in a backyard composter, collected for farm or community garden use, or even turned into pellets as an alternative home heating fuel.
Based in Ottawa, FCS is asking the town to sign on as a partner in its pilot project by subsidizing up to 100 FoodCyclers for local residents at a cost of $100 each, for a total investment of $10,000…
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