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US-Designed ‘Mechanical Stomach’ Lands in The UK

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A new food recycling machine billed as a ‘mechanical stomach’ could be the key to turning the excess of food waste into little more than water at a staggering rate, as the first of it’s kind in the UK goes online in London.

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The Eco-Safe Digestor is an all-new type of food waste disposal machine, being distributed by a schoolmate of Tesla, Paypal and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

Alex Giacchetti, chief operating officer at GreenComm Environmental, says that the Eco-Safe Digestor is capable of turning food waste into ‘grey water’ at the rate of a staggering 1,130 kg in 24 hours.

Giacchetti goes on to explain that this could help businesses with high levels of food waste or high emissions costs save a significant amount of cash; possibly around £40,000 for truly prolific users.

Working by heating up the leftovers to around 40 degrees Celsius using heated water and breaking that concoction down using super-powered enzymes, Giacchetti says that 360 kilograms of waste will result in around a bath’s worth of water.

Does that water require special treatment? Not especially, no. The Eco-Safe Digestor can be emptied down a normal drain, or handled separately to be used for irrigation and other ‘grey water’ applications.

After over 300 of these machines have gone online in the United States, the very first was turned on in the UK this week at London’s five star Athenaeum Hotel. A launch of sorts was held for the device, to prove that for £20,000 users will get a digester that is practically oder and noise-less, and as energy-hungry as a fridge.

However, the device at present doesn’t harness the gas produced by the enzymes in the same way an Anaerobic Digester might. The result is the waste water from an Eco-Safe Digestor is just that; waste water.

Whilst food waste in an anaerobic digester can go on to produce a significant supply of bio gas, that can be fed back into the national grid.

The Eco-Safe Digestor might well be the future for businesses or facilities that are too remote for regular food waste collections – and the ideal would be a machine that combines the benefits of both.

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