Plant that turns Garbage from Turkey parts to Fuel no longer stinks.

[suziedemocrat]

On edit - Please keep in mind this plant uses garbage left over from Turkey Processing - not whole turkeys raised solely to produce fuel. I'm a vegetation, but people eat meat and it creates waste and that waste could be a source of fuel.


From: http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/13870987.htm

Odor complaints drop off as Carthage plant tests controls
MARCUS KABEL
Associated Press
CARTHAGE, Mo. -

State regulators have seen a decline in complaints about bad smells as a company that makes fuel oil from turkey byproducts uses new odor control equipment during a two-week test period that ends Tuesday.

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Johnson said people in Carthage want the plant to succeed for its roughly 60 jobs and its promise of a new source of fuel, as long as it can get the smells under control.

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RES, which is owned by Changing World Technologies Inc., uses heat and pressure to convert bones, feathers, fat and other leftovers from the Butterball turkey plant into fuel oil. ConAgra Foods Inc., which is a minority shareholder in Changing World Technologies, owns the turkey processing plant.

[slor]

1. It should be used as a...

sewage treatment/management facility.

[suziedemocrat]

3. You know this same process can be used to treat sewage.

They have had a lot of problems with this first plant, but maybe someday we won't have landfills anymore.

Also, because the outputs have carbon separate from the oil, the fuel burns cleaner than "natural" oil.

[MercutioATC]

6. Actually, it can be used to process ANYTHING (except nuclear waste)

In goes whatever...out comes oil, water, and minerals.

Interesting technology.

[Warpy]

2. Now if only these folks will set up a pilot plant at an overfilled,

leaking, stinking landfill. There is a wealth of packaging, plastic, and garbage all ready to be turned into light sweet crude oil while getting rid of an eyesore and major health hazard.

I look forward to the day when there are TDP plants at every landfill nationwide.

Anyway, they couldn't possibly smell worse than a paper mill, one of the stinks of my youth.

[missouri dem 2]

4. I could smell it tonight.

Not a great plan to put the plant in town.

[NNadir]

5. Maybe the complaints have stopped because people either

moved away, got used to it, gave up, or have become densensitized.

This plant has not thus far been a winner.