Depackaging equipment for food waste What it is used for and why people buy it
Food waste depackagers are intended to operate at the beginning of anaerobic digestion plants in order to generate renewable energy from food waste. At the start of the digestion process, they are designed to separate organic and non-organic material from incoming food waste.
Non-organic waste, primarily packaging materials like plastic and cardboard, is typically disposed of in landfills. That's a lot of money! The valuable organic material is pumped into a holding tank before being digested in digesters, which are sealed tanks. The digesters produce methane gas, which is used as clean green energy to power buses and trucks.
Why do businesses purchase this equipment?
They buy it to recycle food waste, which governments are increasingly requiring in order to meet climate change targets. This equipment can help the company meet its carbon reduction goal, and its use demonstrates the company's commitment to decarbonization. This separation technique generates two byproducts for businesses that generate or collect food waste. The first output is organic extracts such as food scraps. Organic extracts can be dry crumbs or, more commonly, wet crumbs. For instance, a wet soup or pulp. Everything else is the second output. The outcasts. Plastic packets, bottles, and cans are examples of rejects.
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| The primary outputs from a depackager are (1) organic and (2) non-organic |
The priority is to extract the pulp as cleanly as possible. The pulp is increasingly valuable to the biogas industry due to the methane gas produced during the digestion process. The biogas industry is expanding rapidly as energy prices rise. Indeed, biogas is now less expensive to produce than traditional fossil fuel energy, and the industry requires more organic material. Food waste has no value unless it is depackaged and separated.
Consider the economic benefit of not paying waste disposal fees and instead selling output.
Non-hazardous waste charges in many developed countries range between $100 and $200 per tonne. The majority of this is because of landfill taxation.
Assuming a year of 250 working days, this equates to a savings of $250,000 per year when an assumed 10% of reject throughput becomes a product. Of course, there are operating costs, and 5 to 10% inert grit may still require landfilling.
However, a depackaging system can clearly pay for itself in about 12 months!
Perhaps less.
As a result, there are compelling economic and environmental reasons to invest in the best depackaging and separation equipment. To avoid making tiny pieces of packaging, it is important to buy one of the newer models that separate packaging with the least amount of applied force. What are tiny pieces of plastic packaging?
Yes, you guessed it!
They're called microplastics.
If you know anything about microplastics, you know how harmful they can be to living creatures.
So, I believe that our readers will have now received the message.
Simply select a system that does not produce microplastic particles converts a disposal cost into a product, achieves payback in a year or less, and profits from your depackager from then on.
