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Converted Organics
Converted Organics has a facility located at the Bayshore Recycling complex in Keasbey, New Jersey and which has begun to accept liquid food waste. It will soon be accepting a full range of source-separated food waste to be processed into high-quality organic biostimulants (natural soil amendments or fertilizer products. The process includes microbes, oxygen and heat, in stainless steel digesters, to convert food wastes to an all-natural product in 72 hours. The facility is expected to process between 80,000 and 100,000 tons of food waste per year after opening in mid 2008.
Food waste products that can be accepted and processed are solid and liquid organic wastes from a variety of sources, including produce handlers, food processors, supermarkets, farmers’ markets, restaurants, hospitals, and airlines. By using organic materials for its products, Converted Organics produces a fertilizer that it believes is safer for people, animals and the environment. Food waste as a feedstock replaces foreign oil, used to produce conventional fertilizers.
