Seville, Spain, is home to 48,000 bitter orange trees. The
oranges are beautiful while on the trees, but aren’t eaten and instead need to
be cleaned off of the city’s streets and sidewalks. Now Seville has a pilot
program underway that seeks to turn the methane produced as the fruit ferments
into clean electricity. While the pilot program is small, the city hopes to
eventually be able to recycle all of the city’s oranges. “It’s not just about
saving money. The oranges are a problem for the city and we’re producing added
value from waste,” said Benigno Lopez, head of the municipal water company,
Emasesam which launched the scheme. Emasesa plans to use the clean electricity
to run one of the city’s water purification plants.
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