Green Benefits of Anaerobic Digestion

The anaerobic digestion process can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in several ways by:

• Preventing the uncontrolled emissions of CH4 from landfill deposits. CH4 is about 22 times more dangerous to the environment than CO2.
• Helping to mitigate methane emissions from agriculture
• Reducing the transport of waste (‘waste miles’)
• Replacing highly energy-intensive manufactured mineral fertilizers with (liquid or solid) bio fertilizer
• Generating electricity and heat or cooling from a carbon neutral source and so
• Removing the dependency on fossil fuels
• Using the generated energy for its own operational demand