Inside the ‘mechanical stomachs’ reducing campus food waste

Dave Annis, director of University Dining Services, sprays down food and enzyme pellets in a biodigester in Cather Dining Center. The device can hold up to 400 pounds of food a day.
Dave Annis, director of University Dining Services, sprays down food and enzyme pellets in a biodigester in Cather Dining Center. The device can hold up to 400 pounds of food a day.
Before last year, food thrown away at Nebraska’s Selleck and Cather dining halls followed a complex path. Today, two new campus devices known as biodigesters have made the process much simpler and a whole lot more sustainable - diverting over 50,000 pounds of food waste from landfills.

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Next@Nebraska Sun. Oct. 04, 2020