{"id":5423,"date":"2011-01-30T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T10:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2011-02-01T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T10:55:35","slug":"ben-jerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/01\/30\/ben-jerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s Becomes Biofuel Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtechling.com\/2011\/01\/ben-jerrys-becomes-biofuel-source\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5426\" title=\"110201_unilever\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110201_unilever.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Milk, cream, proteins, syrups and pieces of fruit\u2014all are are part of the waste stream of ice-cream factories, and soon, at a Ben and Jerry\u2019s factory in the Netherlands, they\u2019ll all help to produce green power. How? Via billions of \u201clittle bugs\u201d that gobble up these goodies and produce biogas. A green bio-digester\u2014developed by Paques and which has already undergone a successful test period\u2014is slated for installation at a Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream factory in Hellendoorn run by Unilever.\u00c2\u00a0 The digester, known as BIOPAQAFR (mentioned via TreeHugger), is unique in that the micro-organisms it uses are able to tackle both easily degradable materials and more problematic ones, such as fats and oils, in one compact reactor, whereas a conventional system requires multiple steps. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtechling.com\/2011\/01\/ben-jerrys-becomes-biofuel-source\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Netherlands | Company: Unilever | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtechling.com\/2011\/01\/ben-jerrys-becomes-biofuel-source\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Techling<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<p>Milk, cream, proteins, syrups and pieces of fruit\u2014all are are part of  the waste stream of ice-cream factories, and soon, at a\u00c2\u00a0Ben and Jerry\u2019s  factory in the Netherlands, they\u2019ll all help to produce green power.  How? Via billions of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paques.nl\/?pid=28&amp;action=getNews&amp;newsId=53\">little bugs<\/a>\u201d that gobble up these goodies and produce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtechling.com\/tag\/biogas\/\">biogas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00c2\u00a0green  bio-digester\u2014developed by Paques and\u00c2\u00a0which has already undergone a  successful test period\u2014is slated for installation at a Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s  ice cream factory in Hellendoorn run by Unilever.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The digester, known  as\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paques.nl\/?pid=28&amp;action=getNews&amp;newsId=53\">BIOPAQAFR<\/a> (mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2011\/01\/ben-jerrys-factory-convert-ice-cream-waste-into-energy.php\">via TreeHugger<\/a>),  is unique in that the micro-organisms it uses are able to tackle both  easily degradable materials and more problematic ones, such as fats and  oils, in one compact reactor, whereas a conventional system requires  multiple steps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milk, cream, proteins, syrups and pieces of fruit\u2014all are are part of the waste stream of ice-cream factories, and soon, at a Ben and Jerry\u2019s factory in the Netherlands, they\u2019ll all help to produce green power. How? Via billions of \u201clittle bugs\u201d that gobble up these goodies and produce biogas. A green bio-digester\u2014developed by Paques&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}