The city council of San Clemente, California, has voted unanimously to begin collecting food scraps so they can be sent to an anaerobic digestion facility operated by CR&R in Perris, California.
The city is negotiating with waste and recycling haulers to begin collecting food scraps in 2016, according to an online article posted by the Orange County Register.
The city council had in mind landfill diversion requirements established by the state of California, according to the article. San Clemente is a city of more than 60,000 people located between Los Angeles and San Diego.
The organic materials collected will be sent to the CR&R anaerobic digestion (AD) facility under construction in Perris that is described in this April 2015 Recycling Today article by consultant Michelle Leonard of SCS Engineers as “one of the largest AD projects in the U.S.”
Leonard says the facility, which will use technology provided by Eisenmann, “is permitted to process more than 80,000 tons of organic waste per year in Phase 1 and to expand to process more than 300,000 tons per year in three additional phases. Feed for the new system will include green yard waste and food waste [and] the AD plant is projected to generate approximately 1 million diesel gallon equivalents (DGE) of compressed natural gas (CNG) per year.”
California city agrees to recycle food scraps
San Clemente, Califoria, food scraps will go to CR&R anaerobic digestion facility.