With restaurant and eat-outs sprawling across the world, wastewater sludge and grease from restaurant kitchens are increasingly becoming a nuisance for the environment, as it releases methane produced during their decomposition – a potent greenhouse gas.
In the lines of finding a relief for the environment, an energy firm in California has come up with an innovative system that will be transforming wastewater sludge from its local restaurants into clean, renewable energy.
Thanks to Chevron Energy Solutions — a Chevron (NYSE: CVX) subsidiary – for engineering and constructing the environment-friendly system at the City of Rialto’s wastewater treatment facility.
The new eco-friendly system is claimed to not just reduce landfills of their wastes leading to lowering greenhouse emissions by nearly 5.5 million tons annually, it will at the same time considerably increase municipal revenues.
To add to the efforts of relieving the environment of greenhouse emissions to such a huge extend, the system will also at the same time, decrease the city’s energy costs by about $800,000 a year.
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