Partner Spotlight: Waste Management of New York, CORe
As part of the NYC Food Waste Fair and Food Waste Toolkit, we’re featuring select vendors and organizations dedicated to fighting food waste. Stay tuned to catch our partner spotlights and learn about the many ways you can stop food waste all year long.
Waste Management of New York (WMNY), in cooperation with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Department of Sanitation (DSNY), is proud to develop the city’s first large scale food waste recycling facility, a cost-effective alternative for turning food waste into renewable energy.
Waste Management’s patented CORe® process is an innovative solution that recycles pre- and post-consumer food wastes into EBS®, an organic slurry product used to generate renewable green energy.
The CORe® process converts food waste into a high-quality organic feedstock used for co-digestion in municipal anaerobic digesters. WMNY operates the CORe® waste food recycling facility within its existing Varick Avenue Transfer Station solid waste transfer premises in Brooklyn. At this site, organic waste is processed into EBS® using our proprietary CORe® process. The EBS® is delivered to the NYC DEP’s Newtown Creek waste water treatment plant. It’s added to the plant’s anaerobic digestion system to increase the production of renewable fuel delivered to the natural gas distribution system.
Learn more about the CORe process and watch our Lunch & Learn with Waste Management’s Dan Hagen here.
Find all of our food waste solutions providers with the Food Waste Toolkit at foodwastetoolkit.com.