Blog: Food for Thought (and Not for Landfill)

This article addresses the situation where your facility shuts down for a week or more and you won't be using your LFC biodigester during that time.

The LFC biodigester produced by Power Knot serves to reduce the time that is needed to break down waste food. As a sustainable technology, it is one of the fastest methods for a restaurant to deal with its food waste.

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report highlights the urgency of prioritizing timely, ambitious, and coordinated action to address unprecedented and enduring changes in the ocean and cryosphere. Businesses in the foodservice industry can play an important role in carbon mitigation.

Many cities are actively discouraging homeowners from using in-sink waste food disposal and urge residents to include food waste such as scraps and leftovers in the same green bin as yard waste. But offering a waste food recycling program to multi-family residential buildings and commercial foodservice operators requires a different approach.

Waste food that ends up in a landfill produces methane — a gas with 84 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. How can foodservice operations minimize the carbon footprint associated with their food scraps and waste food?

Durability, good looks, and hygiene are the reasons why stainless steel is so prevalent in commercial kitchens. If you're buying a biodigester for your kitchen, check the quality of the finish on the exposed surfaces and then look under the hood.

President Donald Trump proclaimed Thursday he was withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord, a sweeping step that fulfills a campaign promise while acutely dampening global efforts to curb global warming.

Beginning on January 19, 2016, large-scale commercial food establishments must separate their organic waste.

Assembly Bill No. 1826 requires that businesses that generate eight cubic yards of organic waste per week divert that waste from the landfill.