Ahead of the green curve – How University of Nebraska-Lincoln has diverted 44,000 kg (98,000 lb) of food waste from landfills and reduced Nebraska’s carbon footprint by 95 tons in less than one year!
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The LFC® biodigester is a commercial aerobic biodigester that decomposes food wastes within 24 hours. Pair it with the SBT-140 stainless steel bin tipper which can handle American, European, and Australasian bins, up to 140 litre (35 gallons).
Convenience
Digest food waste on site in 24 hours with no odor or noise.
Cost Savings
Significantly reduce cost to dispose of and manage waste food.
Compliance
Safely dispose of your waste without sending it to the landfill.
Cleanliness
Eliminate smells, mess, and pests from your trash bins.
Control
See statistics on usage, diagnostics, and service schedules with the LFC Cloud.
Reduce waste, cost, and carbon dioxide with the Power Knot liquid food composter (LFC). This environmentally friendly food waste digester machine is a cost-effective and responsible way to dispose of food waste. The LFC is a commercial biodigester that takes discarded food and transforms it into gray water that is safe to send into the water treatment facilities. This ingenious food waste digester machine uses a series of processes that include microorganisms to break down food and transform it into liquid. By using a food scrap digester, you are reducing the amount of space and energy needed to remove the unwanted food scraps from your facility. It doesn’t need collecting, transporting, or piling up in a landfill. You may not be able to stop people from discarding food, but you can prevent it from piling up in a landfill.
[We] have been able to divert tons of post and prep food to landfills and reduce our waste weight from going to the landfill as well as our cost of waste dumped per event and non-event days.
The environment is Fujitsu’s prime concern, however most of what we do to support the environment has a long term positive impact on our bottom line. We believe the payback on the LFC-70 will be 24 months or less, due to the reduction of trash going to the landfill.
From my desk, I can see how much waste we are adding to the LFC by the hour, day, week, and month. I am driving our organization to zero waste so the weighing capability and remote reporting are important to me.
So far, 7.4 tons of food waste have been disposed. One of the biggest benefits to the staff is the LFC limits the amount of waste that must be transported out to the dumpster for landfill disposal.
The LFC has helped our operation become cleaner as well as saving the environment. We have had no problems with the machine and we are always pleased that there is no smell from the machine.
It’s the right thing to do. It does not make sense to discard the waste food on a landfill and other restaurant owners should be doing this.
EVERYBODY LOVES WINSTON ["Winston" is the name Chik'n has given to their LFC Bio-Digester in the kitchen]. . . . Winston does what he does because sending food to landfill is just plain wrong, producing methane which is 72 times worse for the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The food we feed to Winston comes out carbon neutral so we are leaving as little footprint on the environment as we can.
Contrary to popular belief, installing a food waste digester is very easy. Most LFC biodigesters can be installed in less than a day. Following these four simple steps to properly installing a food waste digester will ensure maximum longevity of the machine with minimal issues.
The LFC biodigesters saved 26,700 tonne CO2e in 2020. Customers using our biodigesters diverted 6300 tonne (14 million lb) of organic waste from the landfill in 2020. That is equivalent to driving an average passenger car in the US 106 million km (66 million miles) or the CO2e created by the energy used by 4800 homes in the US per year.
Montanya Distillers installed an LFC-50 biodigester in February 2021. In just two months, the machine has digested 1500 lb (680 kg) of citrus and other food waste that comes from the bar, restaurant, and tasting room. They have diverted over 2.8 tonnes of CO2e from the landfill.
U.S. school food waste amounts to 530,000 tons each year, creating 1.9 million MTCO2e of greenhouse gases. We review the hurdles to stopping food waste, costs, preventative measures, and long term solutions in the K-12 and higher education market.
Since the installation of two LFC biodigesters, University of Nebraska Lincoln has gone above and beyond their sustainability goals – diverting 44,000 kg (98,000 lb) of food waste from landfills in the first year of deployment.
Diverting waste, particularly the food waste that can amount to nearly one-third of all waste created at correctional facilities, can drive down prisons’ operational costs. We explain how becoming “green” can help prisons lower their operational costs, and address the challenge presented by some of the food waste solutions in use at correctional facilities today.
From a series of food waste solution webinars, we learned that what native Maldive residents prioritize, impact of COVID-19 on small island resorts, and their biggest food waste problem.
Due to new CDC guidelines on large events and gatherings, Power Knot has postposted attendance to Waste Expo until 2022. Hope to see you there!
We review how Senate Bill 1383 will affect CA businesses, what to expect, implementation schedule, penalty fees, and more.
