The town of Deep River is one step closer to the launch of a program to help reduce food waste going into the local landfill site.
Council will receive a report tonight recommending that the town enter a pilot project with Food Cycle Science (FCS) to equip 150 local homes with the company’s “Food Cycler” countertop composter.
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.
In its proposal, FCS says that “every FoodCycler deployed is estimated to divert at least 2 tonnes of food over its expected lifetime.”
“Based on market rates of $100 per tonne of waste (fully burdened), 150 households participating would divert 300 tonnes of food waste and save the municipality an estimated $30,000 in costs”…
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