Dive Brief:
- Haines City, FL soon will have an organics recycling plant that will transform organic waste into compost. The compost will be available to residents of the town and also neighbors of it.
- The facility is the second phase of Haines City’s plan to convert organic waste into usable compost. The effort began in 2012, when Haines City teamed with NuTerra, a biosolids company, to improve and convert the town’s wastewater treatment system to BCR Environmental’s Neutralizer system.
- The planned facility was designed by NuTerra, which also will construct it, maintain it, and operate it. Haines City will own the building housing the facility, which will combine green residential waste with wastewater treatment biosolids and other organic waste.
Dive Insight:
According to NuTerra, the water treatment plant upgrade it has planned will save the city $2.75 million that would have been spent on digester and dewatering equipment, and also will lower energy costs for biosolid treatment by about 97%.