Harvest Power: Decisively Serious to Stop Food Wastes and Turning them into Something Very Useful

Every year, $180 billion worth of food is wasted in the US alone. Adding insult to injury is the fact that a huge chunk of that end up in landfills and emit greenhouse gases. This is what Harvest Power is trying to minimize. Harvest Power is turning food waste and garden wastes like dried leaves and trimmings into power. Using composting and anaerobic digestion, these wastes are transformed into fertilizer and renewable energy.

Harvest Power was founded in 2008. Today, it operates 40 power plants all across North America. These plants produce 65,000 megawatt hours of electricity. Harvest Power’s Vancouver digester alone is supplying electricity to 900 homes in the suburbs. On top of that, the plants also yield about 29 million bags of soil and fertilizer which are soil to landscapers and farmers. Last year, Harvest Power generate revenues of $130 million.

As the world faces the challenge of global warming, the trash-to-power model that Harvest Power implements is gaining traction. Because of the magnitude of support the company receives from many believers, Harvest Power is unyielding in reaching its goals of converting wastes in green energy that supplies electricity and biogas that can power vehicles.