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Article: Georgia takes many routes to recycle food residuals
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- BioCycle
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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CopyrightCopyright J.G. Press Inc. Sep 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THE many approaches being taken to utilize food residuals generated by processors, cafeterias and households are evident throughout Georgia. Near Atlanta, Arden's Garden Juice Company is cooperating with a nearby farm and staff at the University of Georgia to divert pressed juice pulp from the landfill. Once a week, East Lake Farm manager Ryan Cohen drives a pickup truck to the juice processing plant, where employees put the pulp into the back of his truck instead of the dumpster. Feedstock is easy to handle because it has been dewatered and ground into small particles in the juice pressing process. Then the juice residues are mixed with residential yard trimmings picked up by Cohen at ...