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noun
di·gest·er
dī-ˈje-stər 
də-
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At least 3,000 cows are needed to make an anaerobic digester financially viable, according to a 2018 study.
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Alessandra Bergamin, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2021
In the absence of oxygen inside a digester, bacteria break down the compounds in sewage to create gaseous methane, which can be used to power gas stoves or converted to electricity.
—Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
Ultimately, the researchers found that tossing food into the anaerobic digester had lower environmental impacts than throwing the scraps into landfills or incinerators.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
In addition to a waste digester, the resort plans to install a biorefinery by the end of the year to transform leftover cooking oil into biodiesel.
—Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
The food and yard waste is taken to a digester where it’s processed into methane gas that powers the trash trucks and produces a crop fertilizer by-product.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
At the Bowenpally market, unsold vegetables are shredded into a pulp and passed into an anaerobic digester, where bacteria eat up the waste and emit methane and carbon dioxide gasses.
—Kavitha Yarlagadda, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2022
As one of the incentives for reducing methane emissions, the state’s Dairy Digester Research & Development Program covers a portion of the costs of a digester while dairy farmers would have to pay for the rest.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
The digester started operating there in December 2021.
—Jeff Kart, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
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Alessandra Bergamin, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2021
In the absence of oxygen inside a digester, bacteria break down the compounds in sewage to create gaseous methane, which can be used to power gas stoves or converted to electricity.
—Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
Ultimately, the researchers found that tossing food into the anaerobic digester had lower environmental impacts than throwing the scraps into landfills or incinerators.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
In addition to a waste digester, the resort plans to install a biorefinery by the end of the year to transform leftover cooking oil into biodiesel.
—Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
The food and yard waste is taken to a digester where it’s processed into methane gas that powers the trash trucks and produces a crop fertilizer by-product.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
At the Bowenpally market, unsold vegetables are shredded into a pulp and passed into an anaerobic digester, where bacteria eat up the waste and emit methane and carbon dioxide gasses.
—Kavitha Yarlagadda, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2022
As one of the incentives for reducing methane emissions, the state’s Dairy Digester Research & Development Program covers a portion of the costs of a digester while dairy farmers would have to pay for the rest.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
The digester started operating there in December 2021.
—Jeff Kart, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1614, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Digester.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digester. Accessed 7 Feb. 2023.
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