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How to turn leftovers into electricity

ReInventors is a show that features scientists, inventors, and tinkerers in the Pacific Northwest who are working to create a more sustainable future. You'll meet folks who are reimagining the basic elements of our everyday lives - where we live, what we eat, the way we get to work.

How to turn leftovers into electricity

Season 1 Episode 2 | 4m 34s | CC

A startup company in Seattle is converting half-eaten burgers, spoiled milk, and spent yeast from a brewery into electricity and fertilizer. Katie Herzog visits​ Jan Allen, from Impact Bioenergy, to find out how a shipping-container-sized digester converts leftovers into energy.

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