Food Waste To Fertilizer: Converted Organics

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Doug Gunzelmann in Home+Decor

This Boston based company creates “biostimulant” fertilizers. Using food waste from produce handlers, food processors, supermarkets, farmers’ markets, restaurants, hospitals, and airlines and using their proprietary technology the waste food is broken down by bacteria much like in waste water treatment facilities. The fermentation of the food waste/bacteria mixture is aided with heat and oxygen, like many compost digestion processes. The products produced include odorless fertilizers for the residential and commercial worlds for lawn, turf growth, and gardens. The fertilizers are completely natural and their production methods means the waste is diverted from landfills, methane and CO2 production from their decomposition is eliminated, and they replace artificial fertilizers that pollute water sources and damage soil quality over the long term.

Converted Organics is a dual-eco company. By that we mean we help solve two environmental problems: 1) disposing of food waste without creating harmful greenhouse gasses and 2) creating an environmentally friendly fertilizer. The technology used by Converted Organics converts that food waste into an all natural odorless organic fertilizer. We build state of the art environmentally benign factories that process the food waste using an accelerated composting technology that makes fertilizer free of all harmful bacteria, pathogens and synthetic chemicals. We enhance the nutrient content using all natural organic ingredients to produce fertilizers that enrich the soil and work in harmony with nature.

The use of organic fertilizers aids the health of the soil by adding organic matter to the mixture. Over the course of use organic natural fertilizers require less applications, Converted Organics soil additives can reduce plant disease and fungus growth, and can actually cost less due to requiring less applications.

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4 Responses to “ Food Waste To Fertilizer: Converted Organics ”

Jerome Gill

06. Apr, 2009

I am a public health inspector in Belize,a country in central America and I am looking for ways to safely dispose of both solid and human waste that is environmentally safe.I came across your site and would like to know more about the conversion of waste to fertilizer to see if it can be implemented in my country.Grateful for any literature and diagrams that would show the process as well as cost to implement.Thanks in advance,
Jerome Gill

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GER

18. Jul, 2009

Food Waste Converts Fertilizer (F.W.C.F.) Program

Principle of Existing Technology
Existing technology involves the application of heat and oxygen for aerobic reaction so that the microorganisms in aerobic digester can decompose the organic substances. However, this technology have many disadvantages like high operating cost due to high electricity consumption, requiring pre-sorting of food waste, highly dependence on microorganisms, novice deodorization unit and cannot handle large volume of food waste.
Our New Innovative Technology
GER and Hong Kong Productivity Council jointly developed an in-situ food waste conversion system with the premise of having a low operating cost, an effective deodorization unit and does not require pre-sorting of waste. Food waste is decomposed inside the insulated digestive bio-reactor under suitable high temperature and aerobic condition resulting in having a system with full proof of non-toxic by-products being produced and the quality of the fertilizing product and the rate of waste reduction can be guaranteed.
Please visit http://www.reducefoodwaste.com to view the more details.

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Organic Farming

28. Oct, 2009

Please help me understand how do you eliminate all the chemical traces (fertilizers that were used to grow them) of the waste you are processing. Also does this process includes food like meat?

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