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Hospitals
Hospital kitchens make food waste around the clock and have the least room to keep it. An Eco Digester takes it as it is scraped and turns it into grey water within about a day. We lease it, install it, service it, and watch it.
The problem
Waste audits of Canadian hospitals found that food averaged about 14 percent of what they threw away.
One Canadian hospital measured between 0.9 and 1.4 kg of patient food waste for each patient, each day.
Nova Scotia's food code covers hospital kitchens and expects waste containers to be emptied at least daily to limit odours and pests. A bin of food waste works against that every hour it sits.
Moving wet bins from several kitchens to one dock is work nobody has time for.
The fit
Staff tip scraps in at any hour. The unit weighs each load and digests continuously in a sealed stainless chamber.
A lockable package is available for the LFC-50 to LFC-500. It is the option Correctional Service of Canada uses.
Each kitchen gets the size it needs, and the reporting rolls every unit into one monthly figure for the site.
One monthly fee covers the unit, installation, consumables, service, monitoring, and a swap-out if it ever fails.
The numbers
In service
206 beds and roughly 600 meals a day plus snacks. An LFC-100 has run in the main kitchen since 2016.
A 266-bed hospital in Maryland runs an LFC-200, and a 438-bed hospital in Santiago, Chile, runs an LFC-500.
Reference installs from Power Knot case studies.
The rules where you are
Whether on-site digestion counts toward your province's diversion rule, and whether your water utility accepts the grey water, is confirmed in writing as part of the site assessment, before anything is installed.