InsiderAt The Plant in Chicago, small businesses are tinkering with sustainable food production.
It was designed to make food," Edel said.
The Plant's white whale is turning food waste into cashThe Plant's large backyard features a greenhouse, left, farms, and an anaerobic digester, right.
The innovators believe they can pull antioxidants or vanilla, for example, from the digesting food waste and sell it.
"Take the waste from vertical farming or food waste, put it in an anaerobic digester, generate energy — gas, or turn that into electricity.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Green Tech, Service, CHICAGO, Workers, Whiner, US Department of Agriculture, Sciences
Locations:
Chicago, Texas, The, Morgan