Valencia College: Energy From the Excess - West Campus Launches Food Waste Recycling
August 27, 2019
August 27, 2019
ORLANDO, Florida, Aug. 27 -- Valencia College issued the following news release:
Americans throw away more than $180 billion worth of food every year - and most of the uneaten food ends up in landfills, where it produces the greenhouse gas methane, which is 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Now Valencia College's West Campus is trying to change that - through a pilot recycling program that turns food waste into energy.
Starting this fall semester, Valencia Colle . . .
Americans throw away more than $180 billion worth of food every year - and most of the uneaten food ends up in landfills, where it produces the greenhouse gas methane, which is 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Now Valencia College's West Campus is trying to change that - through a pilot recycling program that turns food waste into energy.
Starting this fall semester, Valencia Colle . . .