City Suspends Organic Waste Transformation Program Following Issues

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A program that was designed to transform organic waste into clean energy has gone offline, with no firm date for its return. The project which aimed to take the city’s food scraps and other organic waste and transform them into methane, a clean energy, at a Brooklyn plant has been discontinued.

According to the plan, the waste would be broken down into various parts, with part of it being used as fertilizer and part being produced as “bio-gas,” which can be used to heat homes. 

The program faced challenges from the start, broken equipment chiefly among them. Finally, the program was brought online last June… only to fail again weeks later. Residents of the area, as well as watchdogs who were monitoring the program, watched as a haze hovered over the area—where it should not have been. 

National Grid said that there “was an issue” and that there would be maintenance work to rectify it.    

A representative said that the DEP is working on ways of better communicating with the public regarding this project.