Turning Earth Organic Recycling Plant Takes Step Forward : Permit for 50,000 TPA Anaerobic Digestion and Composting Plant in Connecticut
Organic waste recycling firm, Turning Earth, has received a permit to build and operate a composting and anaerobic digestion plant for source separated organic materials in central Connecticut.
To develop the plant Turning Earth has partnered with Danish technology firm Aikan A/S to bring the first integrated dry fermentation high solids anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting facility to the Northeast.
Once operational the plant will it recycle the municipal and commercial organic waste streams of over 16 municipalities and communities in central Connecticut.
Back in June 2014 the company received permission from the Town of Southington to build a new, $20 million organics recycling facility on approximately 37 acres. In January 2016 its received its New Source Review Permit to Construct and Operate a Stationary Source from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Air Management.
The company said that it has now received a Permit to ‘Construct and Operate a Volume Reduction Plant for Composting and Anaerobic Digestion of Source Separated Organic Materials’ from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
According to the developer the proposed Central Connecticut organics recycling facility, slated to open in mid-2018, will convert 50,000 tons (45,000 tonnes) per year of source separated organics and 25,000 tons per year of leaf, woody and yard waste into a number of valuable resources including:
1.4 MWof renewable electricity – enough to power nearly 1000 homes
40,000 cubic yards (30,500 cubic metres) of rich, fertile compost and soils
1.5 million heads of lettuce from a single acre of greenhouse
Carbon dioxide reduction – the equivalent of taking approximately 9800 cars off the road
High quality local jobs at the facility, both during construction and throughout the Turning Earth Central Connecticut value chain.
The company added that the facility will also help the state, commercial generators of organic waste and the surrounding local communities achieve Connecticut’s policy goals of higher recycling rates set forth in Connecticut’s Solid Waste Management Plan and mitigating green house gas emissions and climate change.
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