Renergy Adds Depackaging & Product Destruction to Services
In the United States, we throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour. That’s an important note when you consider this next fact: More than 23 percent – roughly one quarter – of waste in landfills is containers and packaging.
Landfills are a significant source of greenhouse gas, so it’s important that we divert as much waste as possible away from them. Renergy is now depackaging food waste to further expand on our mission to reduce as much waste as possible for our clients.
We’ve invested in the latest depackaging system, and are now processing finished goods and packaged materials from partnering food manufacturers at our Central Ohio bioenergy facility.
Packaged material is run through a separator that grinds and separates it from the organics. The depackaged material is bailed then recycled and the organics are pumped to our anaerobic digester.
Through anaerobic digestion, organic waste is converted into heat, power, alternative fuel, and natural fertilizer for healthier land and soil.
Renergy is currently processing packaged and finished goods including steel cans, milk jugs and cartons, plastic pet food containers and pouches, cardboard containers, water bottles and soda cans.
Depackaging is part of our larger effort to offer clients a more sustainable outlet for all of their materials. The more food and packaging waste that’s kept out of landfills, the better for the environment and all of us. But that’s really just the start.
At Renergy, we’re constantly rethinking the status quo and coming up with solutions that turn a liability (waste) into a resource (energy). Read more about our waste management solutions for the business and public sector.
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The RUNI screw compactors are Danish engineered and built. RUNI compactors have seen widespread adoption in Europe and the UK for the dewatering of biogas feedstock rejects/residuals. The RUNI is efficient to squeeze the residual water from rejected materials to reduce handling and waste costs to landfill or incineration and also reintroduce the organic liquids back into the slurry compound for anaerobic digestion. The RUNI is also efficient to dewater consumer packaged goods such as PET bottles, aluminum or steel cans, Tetra Pak, cartons, etc.
Please contact me with any possible needs or potential applications for cost savings and increased throughput and revenues.