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How to turn leftovers into electricity

Season 1 Episode 2 | 4m 34s

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.

Aired: 06/20/18
Made possible with funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Extras
Learn about Operation Sustain, a video game that teaches kids about climate change.
Join Katie as she visits a state-of-the-art oyster nursery and learns how to slurp oysters
What if you could turn almost any surface into a solar panel?
If you could teleport inside a polluted box to save lives, would you?
How can we reduce agricultural waste? Replace fish meal with mealworms.
Your hamburger choice has real consequences for the environment.
Scientists at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory are batting mosquitoes with... laser beams.
A suburb just outside of Seattle hides a nuclear reactor.
A grassroots effort to develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit.
A scientist at Oregon State University is developing edible food packaging and coatings.
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Learn about Operation Sustain, a video game that teaches kids about climate change.
Join Katie as she visits a state-of-the-art oyster nursery and learns how to slurp oysters
What if you could turn almost any surface into a solar panel?
If you could teleport inside a polluted box to save lives, would you?
How can we reduce agricultural waste? Replace fish meal with mealworms.
Your hamburger choice has real consequences for the environment.
Scientists at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory are batting mosquitoes with... laser beams.
A suburb just outside of Seattle hides a nuclear reactor.
A grassroots effort to develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit.
A scientist at Oregon State University is developing edible food packaging and coatings.