digester
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Photo: Jesse Newman/The Wall Street Journal Several peers operate digesters that reduce pathogens in manure and produce methane that can be burned to produce electricity. — Jesse Newman And Patrick Mcgroarty, WSJ, "Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America," 18 Jan. 2019 Temple University is really serious about its waste, and its installed three digesters to help break down its trash. — Tauhid Chappell, Philly.com, "Supreme Courts decision could affect Pennsylvania politics, two casinos open in Atlantic city | Morning Newsletter," 28 June 2018 At the end of this school year, Temple began leasing three digesters: one large and two small models. — Annabelle Williams, Philly.com, "Temple's food waste digesters disrupting the industry or just 'shifting the burden'?," 27 June 2018 The anaerobic digester annually converts 500 tons of animal manure and other organic waste into methane-rich gas to help power the zoo's animal hospital, leaving a nutrient-rich fertilizer as a byproduct. — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, "Detroit Zoo is giving away free buckets of poop," 3 Apr. 2018 Each year, a total of 16 million gallons of food waste is mixed together before it is poured into two 1.3 million gallon digester tanks. — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Potawatomi's $20 million waste-to-energy plant violated wastewater permit with excessive discharges," 12 Apr. 2018 The digester converts 500 tons of animal manure and other organic waste each year into methane-rich gas to help power the zoo's animal hospital. — NBC News, "Zoo offering visitors buckets of 'Detroit Zoo Poo'," 5 Apr. 2018 The digester converts 500 tons of animal manure and other organic waste each year into methane-rich gas to help power the zoo’s animal hospital. — Fox News, "Detroit Zoo tempts visitors with free buckets of animal poop," 4 Apr. 2018 Buckets will be available to the first 1,000 visitors to the zoo's anaerobic digester educational display. — NBC News, "Zoo offering visitors buckets of 'Detroit Zoo Poo'," 5 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'digester.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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