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Are Liquid Composters the Next Frontier for Small and Midsized Organic Waste Generators?

April 5, 2018

Via: Waste360

Ace Natural, a New York City-based distributor of organic produce and other foods, doesn’t pay to have food scraps hauled anymore. Rather, it uses a liquid composter installed on its property, negating the need to collect, wrap and load waste on to pallets and eliminating the need to store waste in its refrigerator and ship it to a composting facility.

Designed and manufactured by Power Knot in San Jose, Calif., the machine is called a liquid food composter, but it’s basically a small aerobic digester. The company sells the equipment around the world and in the U.S., mainly to the Army and hotels but also to some U.S. hospitals, grocers, a stadium and one large waste hauler. Power Knot President Iain Milnes sees the solid waste industry becoming a prime client type in time.

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