How Divert Recycles Food Waste Nutrients Back Into Local Soil

Commercial food waste often includes its packaging, and standard composting processes can leave contamination in the final output. Divert’s approach uses anaerobic digestion paired with its High-Recovery Depackaging technology and fine screening to mitigate plastic contamination before processing. What reaches the digester is food, and what exits as fertilizer reflects that. Solid and liquid fertilizers from clean food-based feedstock supply necessary micronutrients and rebuild organic microbial diversity. Keeping those nutrients local, reduces transport impacts and gives farmers a consistent and clean soil input. To learn more about how Divert is advancing soil stewardship and circularity, read the blog at: https://divertinc.com/recycling-nutri... 0:00 Introduction 1:12 The soil problem hiding in commercial compost 3:29 How anaerobic digestion captures nutrients and mitigates contaminants 6:19 Keeping nutrients local 7:58 What this means for farmers and regulators 10:23 Learn more about Divert's approach to soil health About Divert, Inc. Divert is a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted through nationwide infrastructure and innovative technologies. Founded in 2007, the company provides an end-to-end solution that leverages data to prevent waste, facilitates edible food recovery to provide to people in need, and transforms unsold food products into renewable energy to power communities and fertilizers to enrich local soils. Through this integrated approach to reducing wasted food–Prevent, Provide, Power®–Divert works with customers across the U.S. to reduce wasted food and positively impact people and the environment. For more information on Divert, Inc., please visit www.divertinc.com.