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repeating our history of being ahead of legislation and state policy.” This program captures food waste from restaurants, grocery stores, and other businesses, and converts it to methane through anaerobic digestion, which helps power the nearby Central Marin Sanitation Agency( CMSA) sewage treatment plant.“ Conveniently this is less than a mile away from our facility,” Justin continues.“ The food waste is used in the digestion processing of biosolids to create energy. The addition of the food waste has meant that the efficiency of the microbes has greatly increased, leading to the site becoming energy-positive; it now produces more energy than it uses.”
This collaboration was made possible, in part, thanks to the company’ s dedication to building positive relationships with the broader community. This includes an education program, which sees school children welcomed to Marin Sanitary Service’ s recycling facility to learn more about the benefits of recycling.
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