Recycling facility to co-digest organics and biosolids in Haines City

Ground has been broken on an organics recycling facility that initiates the second phase of Haines City’s plan to turn organic waste into compost for its residents and surrounding communities for lawns, athletic fields, golf courses and agriculture. Phase one began in 2012 when biosolids company NuTerra worked with Haines City produce a Class AA/EQ product by upgrading wastewater treatment from aerobic digestion to BCR Environmental’s Neutralizer® system. NuTerra said the city was said to have avoided capital expenditures of $2.75 million for digester rehabilitation and dewatering equipment, reduced annual biosolids treatment and disposition costs by approximately $133,000 for 20 years and reduced energy costs for biosolids treatment by approximately 97%. NuTerra designed the new facility and will build, operate, and maintain it at the wastewater treatment plant’s property site. Haines City will own the building, which will blend residents’ green waste with wastewater treatment biosolids and other organic waste accepted from surrounding communities and commercial interests. Mike Stripling, Haines City utility director, said: “The facility will provide surrounding communities an economically and environmentally advantageous outlet for their organics waste. In addition, offsetting the use of commercial fertilizers with compost by our local athletic fields will result in superior water retention properties and allow for the slow release of beneficial nutrients.” ### Read more Landfill biomethane to fuel 400 UPS vehicles across California Anaerobic digestion to process 45,000 tpa of food waste into 2.1 MW in Herts, UK Food waste to be co-digested into biogas in Korean underground wastewater treatment plant