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Students at Elizabethtown College are helping to turn garbage into green energy - just by chowing down.
The leftovers from lunches and other meals - up to ten 30-gallon buckets a week - are separated from trash, grinded and then shipped to Brubaker Farms in Mount Joy.
The food waste is then mixed with manure and turned into a methane gas that powers a generator producing 210 kilowatts an hour - enough to power 200 homes - which then is sold back to the power grid.
"As a farmer, that's important for me since I'm a steward of the land," Mike Brubaker said. "I'm always looking for ways not only to help the bottom line as far as profitability, but if we can help the environment at the same time, it's really a win-win."
The recycling project, believed to be the first-of-its-kind, has helped the college to save 4,400 gallons of water a week and has cut the waste and water bill by 80 percent since it began in fall 2009.
"It's a part of our continuing conservation substantiality program that we have at the college," said Joe Metro, the college's director of facilities management and construction. "It's been in effect for many years. Our goal is to use the absolute minimum of resources that we can for the operation of the college."
Students at Elizabethtown College are helping to turn garbage into green energy - just by chowing down.
The leftovers from lunches and other meals - up to ten 30-gallon buckets a week - are separated from trash, grinded and then shipped to Brubaker Farms in Mount Joy.
The food waste is then mixed with manure and turned into a methane gas that powers a generator producing 210 kilowatts an hour - enough to power 200 homes - which then is sold back to the power grid.
"As a farmer, that's important for me since I'm a steward of the land," Mike Brubaker said. "I'm always looking for ways not only to help the bottom line as far as profitability, but if we can help the environment at the same time, it's really a win-win."
The recycling project, believed to be the first-of-its-kind, has helped the college to save 4,400 gallons of water a week and has cut the waste and water bill by 80 percent since it began in fall 2009.
"It's a part of our continuing conservation substantiality program that we have at the college," said Joe Metro, the college's director of facilities management and construction. "It's been in effect for many years. Our goal is to use the absolute minimum of resources that we can for the operation of the college."
