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2020 Emerald Award recipient in the Small Business category.
Glen Smith remembers the night Eco-Growth Environmental first tested its biomass dehydrator. Employees loaded up around two hundred pounds of food waste and left for home in the wee hours of the morning.
Fortunately for the building, it was a success. The processor turned the waste into a dehydrated biomass, shrinking its volume by around 80 per cent. Eco-Growth has also designed a specialty boiler that can be fueled by the biomass, which Smith says burns at around 8600 to 9000 British Thermal Units per pound — higher than the typical 7000 BTUs of wood.
Using the biomass as feedstock is also considered carbon neutral, Smith says.
In 2018, Eco-Growth started working with the Surmont Operations Waste and Liability Strategy committee to implement a food waste diversion program at the ConocoPhillips bitumen recovery facility in Surmont. Eco-Growth technology turns around 385 kilograms of raw waste, including food, organics, paper and grease, into 77 kilograms of biomass every day. It’s then used as part of an industrial process to soak up hydrocarbons at the plant.
2020 Emerald Award recipient in the Small Business category.
Glen Smith remembers the night Eco-Growth Environmental first tested its biomass dehydrator. Employees loaded up around two hundred pounds of food waste and left for home in the wee hours of the morning.
Fortunately for the building, it was a success. The processor turned the waste into a dehydrated biomass, shrinking its volume by around 80 per cent. Eco-Growth has also designed a specialty boiler that can be fueled by the biomass, which Smith says burns at around 8600 to 9000 British Thermal Units per pound — higher than the typical 7000 BTUs of wood.
Using the biomass as feedstock is also considered carbon neutral, Smith says.
In 2018, Eco-Growth started working with the Surmont Operations Waste and Liability Strategy committee to implement a food waste diversion program at the ConocoPhillips bitumen recovery facility in Surmont. Eco-Growth technology turns around 385 kilograms of raw waste, including food, organics, paper and grease, into 77 kilograms of biomass every day. It’s then used as part of an industrial process to soak up hydrocarbons at the plant.
![Transforming Waste: How [Re] Waste Diverts over 200,000 Pounds of Plastic from Landfills Every Year](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/irP3NM_QWoI/mqdefault.jpg "Transforming Waste: How [Re] Waste Diverts over 200,000 Pounds of Plastic from Landfills Every Year
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