This is what smart resource management looks like. See Make Way for Biogas:
Food scraps will be used to fuel garbage trucks in the City of Toronto. Anaerobic digesters take materials from food scrap bins and turn it into solid or biogas, a type of biofuel that is naturally produced from the decomposition of organic waste. The city has been working on biogas since 2015, as a way to turn food scraps into something useful. Starting March 2020, the biogas system will be ready for use.
Thanks to a new plant at a solid waste facility, the city is ready. And it’s the first one in North America to do it. The same trucks that pick up waste will be fueled by it. After trucks pick up the trash and bring it to the waste facility, trucks will get filled up with the same biogas from the scrap digester. It’s a true circular system.
Carlyle Khan, director of infrastructure and resources management at the City of Toronto, said of the reduced emissions through biogas, “It’s one of the most significant actions the city can take… because we’re not using resources to withdraw and clean fossil fuels, we’re using the waste that’s already produced.”
Not only will the estimated 55,000 tonnes of waste each year fuel trucks, but the biogas produced will also be injected into the natural gas grid. This is key as we move to replace methane spewing natural gas as the main heating and fireplace fuel in North America.
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