Convert your food waste into renewable energy
and last updated 2021-04-13 18:22:54-04
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Food waste is a common part of our everyday lives.
âItâs fairly immoral to waste this much food, sustainability manager Morgan Bowerman said. Because we waste all this food while one in six adults in the U.S. are food insecure.â
Morgan Bowerman is the sustainability manager at Wasatch Resource Recovery, a waste management service in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She says reducing waste and feeding the hungry should be our first priorities, but food waste is still inevitable. When it goes to the landfill, itâs harmful for the environment.
Got sour milk? Rotten lettuce? Moldy bread?
Don’t throw them in the trash.
Wasatch Resource Recovery is accepting small volumes of residential food waste under 15 gallons per trip from Utahns. Acceptable items include fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products and bread.
The food scraps can be dropped off for free just inside the facility gates at 1370 W. Center St., North Salt Lake.
Utah’s first anaerobic food digester revved up two years ago. Since then, this giant beast has been taking food waste from grocery stores, restaurants and other commercial food operations. (As well as 275 cases of beer from state liquor stores in 2019.)