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The State of New Jersey generates a significant amount of wet organic waste (e.g., food waste, green waste, farm waste) each year due to its dense population. These wastes represent a great challenge for waste management due to their high production rate and the inefficiency of conventional management methods, leading to a great amount of greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., landfilling). At the same time, a growing portfolio of technologies are being developed to generate valuable bioenergy and biochemical products from these wastes (e.g., cellulosic ethanol, renewable diesel blendstock, lactic acid). Assessing the potential and sustainability of waste-derived products will provide critical information as society pivots to a circular and sustainable economy that meets the decarbonization goals. Objectives of this project include: (i) quantifying the amount of wet organic waste generated across New Jersey; and (ii) incorporating the data into a Bioenergy Calculator (https://ecocomplex.rutgers.edu/biomass-energy-potential.html) to evaluate the amount of energy that can be produced using this waste.
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