{"id":2511,"date":"2021-09-24T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2021-09-24T18:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:56:36","slug":"pilot-project-turns-food-waste-from-kitchener-businesses-into-clean-energy-cbc-25-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/2021\/09\/pilot-project-turns-food-waste-from-kitchener-businesses-into-clean-energy-cbc-25-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot project turns food waste from Kitchener businesses into clean energy (CBC, 25 July 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This item was mirrored from https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/kitchener-waterloo\/compost-pilot-downtown-kitchener-ontario-1.5225440<\/a> on 24 September 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n

13 downtown Kitchener restaurants and grocers are participating in a composting initiative.<\/strong>
\nAlexandra Burza \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Jul 25, 2019 4:59 PM ET | Last Updated: July 26, 2019<\/p>\n

A new composting initiative in downtown Kitchener collects commercial food waste and turns it into clean energy.<\/p>\n

The Downtown Kitchener Business Improvement Area (BIA) has asked 13 restaurants and grocers to participate in their pilot project.<\/p>\n

“This pilot is about supporting a circular economy by using local partnerships and expertise to provide local jobs and solutions to a global problem,” said Linda Jutzi, the BIA’s Executive Director in a press release. <\/p>\n

How it works<\/h3>\n

The waste is transferred to Bio-En Power in Elmira to be processed into a flexible and green energy source called biogas.<\/p>\n

Sustainable Waterloo Region is also collaborating on the project, supporting the businesses by measuring how much waste they divert from landfill, and helping to implement good composting practices.<\/p>\n

Julia Gogoleva, co-owner of Full Circle Foods, said her business already had a composting solution in place before they were approached by the BIA.<\/p>\n

“Really the reason we’re excited to participate is because it’s a systemic solution,” she said.<\/p>\n

She said she wanted to support the initiative because it offered a hassle-free and cost-effective solution for small businesses that may not have funds to spare for waste diversion.<\/p>\n

Thinking bigger<\/h3>\n

At La Cucina, Bobby O’Brien’s and McCabe’s, vice-president of operations Darryl Moore anticipates 70-75 per cent of food waste will be diverted into the new compost program.<\/p>\n

But Moore, who also serves as the chairman on the BIA, refers to the project as an interim solution. He said that the Elmira facility is already near maximum capacity.<\/p>\n

“I’m hoping really the region takes a bigger part in looking at commercially how they’re going to deal and manage in the next few years to come with the compost,” he said, “There’s still got to be a long term goal and solution for everybody wants to participate in the city.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This item was mirrored from https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/kitchener-waterloo\/compost-pilot-downtown-kitchener-ontario-1.5225440 on 24 September 2021. 13 downtown Kitchener restaurants and grocers are participating in a composting initiative. Alexandra Burza \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Jul 25, 2019 4:59 PM ET | Last Updated: July 26, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[538,539],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news-on-radio-or-tv","tag-cbc","tag-kitchener-bia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}