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Sunnyvale smart station diverts about half of inbound material and sends food scraps to wastewater plants for energy
Summary
At a City of Sunnyvale webinar, Smart Station director Jeff Dobbert said the facility currently diverts roughly 50% of incoming material and processes food scraps into a mash that is sent to regional wastewater treatment plants for anaerobic digestion and energy recovery; staff outlined services, safety priorities and a planned retrofit to boost diversion.
Jeff Dobbert, director of operations for the Smart Station, said at a City of Sunnyvale sustainability webinar that the facility reclaims roughly half of the material it receives and converts food scraps into a pumpable "mash" that wastewater plants anaerobically digest to generate energy.
"We're currently diverting 50% of all the material that comes to the facility as a whole," Dobbert said, describing how the station separates garbage, recyclables and organics on split processing lines and manual sort belts. He said food scraps are augered and agitated into a mash and loaded into tanker trucks for delivery to permitted plants including East Bay MUD and Silicon…
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