How a composting centre profits from food waste

Posted by Sinlung
In a process that will turn thousands of tons of rotting food, yard waste, and paper products into rich compost that will be used to help farmers grow crops and homeowners nurture their shrubs, the Wilmington Organic Recycling Center has opened a twenty million dollar industrial-sized composting plant. The center, built on a twenty-seven-acre brown-field site, charges clients fifty dollars a ton to dump their waste at the compost plant (less than the state-wide rate of sixty-one a ton to dump waste in one of the three landfills in the state).
The compost also reduces the volume of landfill waste, saves waste-disposal fees, cuts emissions of climate-changing methane, generates carbon credits for businesses, and returns soil nutrients to their source of origin.