Updated on February 26, 2021 at 6:44 pm
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It's easy to take leftover food at the end of a meal and just toss it in the trash, but getting food waste out of the can and into the right place could play a big role in our state's waste management and help fight climate change.
"This facility, being one of the first, we were very much pioneers in the process of recovering food waste and what it did was we set the stage for folks and communities to consider recycling their food waste,” explains Brian Paganini, the Vice President of Quantum Biopower in Southington. “In Connecticut food waste is the largest portion of our waste that is the least recycled."