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StormFisher, a renewable energy company based in Toronto, has launched a $20 million resource recovery facility in Drumbo, Ontario. The project was built in partnership with Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure company based in San Francisco. The facility provides food waste recycling services to handle packaged organics to divert waste from landfills.
According to a news release from StormFisher, the Drumbo facility will enable more municipalities, restaurants, grocery stores and food manufacturers to achieve their environmental goals by reducing food waste. The facility will also produce renewable energy and organic fertilizer with the capacity to process more than 100,000 tons of food waste per year.
“We are thrilled to expand operations so that our customers can broaden their environmental practices by diverting packaged food and green-bin materials sustainably,” says Brandon Moffatt, vice president of development at StormFisher. “At the new, purpose-built facility, we separate food waste from nonorganic material using best-in-class technologies. This facility initiates an important first step in organics processing by transforming residential and commercial organic waste into renewable energy and fertilizer.”
The company says the facility will be accessible and transparent to the customers they serve and the communities they operate in.
“Generate and StormFisher is focused on bringing innovative solutions for food waste to the North American market,” says John Dannan, principal at Generate Capital. “We’re proud to partner with StormFisher to open this critical and innovative facility in Drumbo, Ontario, that will serve the community with new solutions for organic waste while also creating clean energy and diverting waste from landfills.”