In this introductory and general series of posts on waste digesters, I have listed all the organic waste that may be composted (digested) in an anaerobic waste digester. This organic waste may comprise discarded food, partly eaten-food, animal carcasses, or animal & human excrement. All those ingredients can power an anaerobic digester, and often do,…

Welcome. If you’re visting in search of information on commercial waste digesters – of their environmental, economic, municipal-fiscal, and public policy implications — please see my introductory series here @ FREE WHITEWATER. I’ve a dedicated category on them generally, and another category about a proposal to construct one in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Thanks for visiting –…

There’s more than one reason to be concerned about large commercial waste digesters: their environmental risks, their fiscal strain on a municipality’s infrastructure, their exaggerated or illusory economic benefits, and the secretive way they’re promoted by a few insiders. For these reasons, I’ve a modest proposal: let those within a community who introduce these waste-processing…

If what goes into a digester is foul (and it is), and if what comes out of one is foul (and it is), then what accounts for proposals on their behalf?  It is not, and never has been, a consequence of popular desire.  There’s a clue in this, worth considering. Demand. One knows, after all, that demand is an “economic principle…

If the process of waste digestion is merely a crude mimicking of animals’ digestion, and if the ingredients of waste digestion are discarded, partly-eaten food, animal carcasses, or animal & human excrement, and all of the chemicals and substances attached to any of them, then there remains an even more astounding truth: what comes out of a…

Waste digesters take organic waste (and any substances, chemicals, or concoctions attached to that waste) and process it through composting (‘digestion’). Although a few describe these ingredients as ‘clean and green,’ that’s false: they’re mostly brown and entirely foul. Nor are these ingredients assured to be natural: they will inevitably include the unnatural, concocted chemicals…

Waste digesters take organic refuse (e.g., rotting food, dead animal carcasses, human or animal excrement) and process that waste by composting it into sludge, liquids, carbon dioxide, and methane. The methane (‘biogas’) is sometimes used for fuel, and the sludge and moisture extracted from the composting is spread on the ground or released into the…

You may have heard that Whitewater has before her a ‘monumental’ opportunity for the construction of a vast waste digester in the city, and that this prospect is an example of green technology. There have been two local newspaper stories to this effect, but little substance to either (and significant errors in one). I have…