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Related: About this forumUtah's rotten, stinky food can now be transformed into natural gas and fertilizer.
Utahs 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 isnt make-believe. It exists and is just waiting to be fed the stinkiest, sourest, most disgusting leftovers the state can scrape off its plates.
Utahs 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
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msongs
(70,287 posts)1. did it used to be transformed into mitt romney, trump's lap dog? nt
Thunderbeast
(3,549 posts)2. In Utah, it will have to digest a lot of green Jello Salad :)
Crowman2009
(2,850 posts)3. Oh like in Troll 2, which coincidentally was filmed in Utah.
I bet finding out that fact makes you wanna say...
Salviati
(6,038 posts)4. Nilbog? That's goblin spelled backwards!