In one end of the long green warehouse come heaps of powdery, malodorous chicken manure. Out the other goes garden-ready fertilizer sold to golf courses or companies like Scotts, which bags it and markets it as Miracle Gro Organic Choice and other products.
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Controversial chicken waste biorefinery moves forward in Sussex County
A unanimous vote from the Sussex County Council pushed forward plans to expand the Perdue AgriRecycle facility near Seaford, Del., for the purpose of converting chicken industry waste products into energy.
The council voted 5-0 Tuesday for Cambridge-based Bioenergy Devco’s conditional use application for the newly renamed Bioenergy Innovation Center in Seaford, which project proponents say will produce sustainable energy and healthy soil products from organics that sometimes go to waste.
The project will add an anaerobic digester, which breaks down matter using microorganisms at industrial scale, to the existing 220-acre composting facility. The operation will be permitted to process 200,000 metric tons of chicken waste products like heads, offal and feathers per year.
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