The Fremont Community Digester can handle almost any organic waste, from protein shakes to cow manure.
In 2013 Kroger Company became the first grocery company to convert its food waste into energy when it built a digester capable of handling 150 tons of food waste per day.
Liquid wastes from the deacetylation step are sent to the wastewater treatment area, assuming the anaerobic digester has no issues handling the extra amount of sodium from sodium acetate, instead of ammonia acetate.
Older households may not be interested in the laborious task of feeding and handling of bio-digesters, choosing instead to continue consuming traditional energy sources, mainly firewood, charcoal, and animal dung.
The degradation of organic matter in a municipal solid waste in an anaerobic-controlled environment of a digester serves as a responsible way to handle municipal solid waste [38].
In addition, communities need to be educated regarding the fact that 99% of the pathogens and bacteria in the feed are destroyed in the digester under anaerobic conditions, making it safe to handle the bio-slurry (also referred to as bio-fertilizer), which can be used for vegetable farming.
Prior to October 2012, when the Fremont Community Digester opened for business, no other digester in the state could process the vast array of foods handled at Feeding America West Michigan, so much of that waste was simply sent to the landfill.
