date:Jul 25, 2014
e need for natural gas to heat the plant.
The biodigester was tested for a year and underwent 18 months of trial runs. In the past year the machine has powered over 7.5 million litres of Ben Jerry's ice cream and became fully operational in June.
The Chunkinator head engineer Arjan Vloon said, Our goal is to reduce waste first and then ask ourselves how best to use the waste we do produce in a productive manner. The biodigester gives Ben Jerry's the opportunity to take what had been a waste