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Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway announced at a press conference Thursday the city's approval of a plan to convert organic waste and wastewater from schools and as many as 100,000 homes into a biogas that is mostly methane, which is already being used to power thousands of homes in the city.

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  1. City approves project to turn organic waste into energy to heat homes Asia Global Energy

  2. Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway announced at a press conference Thursday the city's approval of a plan to convert organic waste and wastewater from schools and as many as 100,000 homes into a biogas that is mostly methane, which is already being used to power thousands of homes in the city. Organice waste from schools and homes, such as old fruits and vegetables, will be converted to house-heating energy through a program introduced by the city on Thursday. The city's new scheme for getting rid of food waste is a gas, gas, gas. It works like this: Collect banana peels, apple cores and other organic waste from city public schools and haul them to the Waste Management garbage treatment facility in Williamsburg to be turned into a soupy bio-slurry. Ship that to the nearby Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Greenpoint and mix it with wastewater sludge to create a biogas that is mostly methane, the main component of natural gas.

  3. RELATED: CITY COULD RECYCLE, COMPOST 90% OF WASTE: REPORT Then use the energy produced by that smelly stew to heat thousands of homes in the city — and a plant that has already been dubbed "The Fart Factory" by locals. "This is the ultimate renewable energy resource," Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said Thursday at a press conference to announce the city's approval of the project. "This first-of-its kind renewable energy project will harness part of the 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater that New Yorkers generate every day."

  4. Using wasted food and wastewater is ‘the ultimate renewable energy resource,’ according to Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway. RELATED: CITY’S PILOT ‘ORGANIC WASTE’ PICK UP PROGRAM SPREADS TO WINDSOR TERRACE Right now, two tons of organic waste from 200 schools in the city, half of them in Brooklyn, are being used to produce enough gas to heat 5,000 homes, officials said. The city hopes to expand the program to about 400 schools by the spring and eventually start collecting organic waste from some 100,000 homes in the city, said Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty. "Earlier we would just bury the waste," Doherty said. "With composting and food waste management we have something new here. A project like this will help protect the environment for our grandchildren."

  5. RELATED: MEET THE MAN WHO DUMPSTER DIVES FOR FOOD National Grid is financing $15 million the biogas purification system at Newtown Creek. Company president Ken Daly called the project "the first of its kind in the country." "Today is really about the future," he said. "This methane would otherwise have been wasted.“ Read more: http://www.lunch.com/reviews/d/UserReview-City_approves_project_to_turn_organic_waste_into_energy_to_heat_homes-1890293-243253-City_approves_project_to_turn_organic_waste_into.html

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