Chicago campus that composts and creates energy aims to redefine waste management

Chicago campus that composts and creates energy aims to redefine waste management

At a once-vacant brownfield on the South Side of Chicago, a semitruck backed into an unassuming warehouse and unloaded a colorful batch of food scraps and spoiled products. The discards soon ended up in a massive tank that mimics a cow's digestion—minus the release of gassy byproducts—where they were turned into compost and renewable energy.

US (IL): Green Era Campus will use food waste to fuel a new two-acre vertical farm

Renewable energy is providing frontline communities with a new paradigm that brings local benefits over and above simply producing power. A new project launched by the Chicago-based nonprofit organization Green Era, for example, demonstrates how biogas production can perform multiple tasks, working as a…

Converting Food Waste Into Renewable Energy for Urban Farms

Renewable energy is providing frontline communities with a new paradigm that brings local benefits over and above simply producing power. A new project focused on converting food waste launched by the Chicago-based nonprofit organization Green Era, for example, demonstrates how biogas production can perform multiple tasks, working as a sustainable food waste solution for local businesses while supporting urban farmers and gardeners as well. Biog…