Leftover food will warm up thousands of apartments in New York
New York City will begin to reclaim the mountain of leftovers sent daily to the trash, mix it with waste water and produce biogas. The project will warm up 5,200 homes and apartments New Yorkers in the short and medium term.According to the Daily News, the pilot program is part of the strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from American city in 30% until 2017 â€" the PlanNYC â€" and has as its starting point the collection of organic food and its shipment to the pre-processed treatment center of Newton Creek, in Brooklyn.Here, she is mixed with sewage sludge of wastewater to create biogas, a natural by-product of the process of treatment of Newton Creek.Later, and through a partnership with the National Grid, the methane-rich biogas is converted to natural gas quality, followed by regular shape to people's homes in the five boroughs of the city.The project was announced in December and, in addition to give a logical destination to the amount of wasted food, will help reduce CO2 emissions equivalent to removing 19 thousand cars from the streets per year.The leftovers will be collected from 200 public schools, especially in Brooklyn. If the program is successful, the city will collect food waste from other 200 schools in the metropolis and more than 100 thousand homes."So far, limitávamo us to bury the food. When investing in composting and food waste management, we can help better the environment for our grandchildren, "explained to the Daily News the New York sanitation Commissioner, John Doherty.Foto:  Nick Saltmarsh / Creative Commons
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