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Synthica's Beverage Industry Solution
Americans waste about 425 beverage containers per capita per year – twice as many as we recycle. As a waste stream not suitable for composting, recycling or other alternatives, it typically gets sent to landfills. This poses a problem because organic waste at landfills emits methane, a greenhouse gas 80x more potent at warming the environment than carbon dioxide. For the beverage industry specifically, it has been estimated that ~60% of methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills are from food and beverage waste.
Synthica is a leading energy transition platform that aims to design, build, own and operate largescale, contracted anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities to convert pre-consumer organic waste into carbon negative renewable natural gas (RNG). Currently, Synthica has an operating facility in St. Bernard, Ohio, and has broken ground on new facilities in San Antonio, Texas and Rome, Georgia. By working with alcohol and beverage distributors that have to dispose of spoiled, recalled and out of spec liquids (whether it be milk, water, soda, RTDs, beer, wine, spirits), Synthica can provide a sustainable alternative for beverage disposal when compared to landfills.
To combat methane emissions, Synthica leverages its state-of-the-art depackaging and decontamination system in its AD facilities to accept a wide variety of beverages, recalled and liquid waste (cans, jars, bottles, boxes, bags, totes and jugs), making it an ideal partner for alcohol and beverage distributors, manufacturers and end users. After feedstock acceptance, Synthica captures the methane generated from anaerobic digestion of the waste and upgrades the biogas to a carbon negative RNG.
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