Every day, truckloads of spoiled produce, expired snacks, and leftover brewery byproducts arrive at a facility in St. Bernard, Ohio, a small village enclave surrounded by Cincinnati. None of it goes to a landfill. It goes into sealed tanks where bacteria break it down and make gas that can be pumped straight into the natural gas pipeline. The facility, built and operated by Synthica Energy, is designed to take in 190,000 tons of food-derived material every year and turn it into roughly 250,000 MMBtu of pipeline-quality renewable natural gas, according to Synthica Energy.
The landfill methane problem behind this project
