Ben & Jerry’s Becomes Biofuel Source
Milk, cream, proteins, syrups and pieces of fruit—all are are part of the waste stream of ice-cream factories, and soon, at a Ben and Jerry’s factory in the Netherlands, they’ll all help to produce green power. How? Via billions of “little bugs” that gobble up these goodies and produce biogas. A green bio-digester—developed by Paques and which has already undergone a successful test period—is slated for installation at a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Hellendoorn run by Unilever. The digester, known as BIOPAQAFR (mentioned via TreeHugger), is unique in that the micro-organisms it uses are able to tackle both easily degradable materials and more problematic ones, such as fats and oils, in one compact reactor, whereas a conventional system requires multiple steps. More…
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Milk, cream, proteins, syrups and pieces of fruit—all are are part of the waste stream of ice-cream factories, and soon, at a Ben and Jerry’s factory in the Netherlands, they’ll all help to produce green power. How? Via billions of “little bugs” that gobble up these goodies and produce biogas.
A green bio-digester—developed by Paques and which has already undergone a successful test period—is slated for installation at a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Hellendoorn run by Unilever.  The digester, known as BIOPAQAFR (mentioned via TreeHugger), is unique in that the micro-organisms it uses are able to tackle both easily degradable materials and more problematic ones, such as fats and oils, in one compact reactor, whereas a conventional system requires multiple steps.
