अमेरिका के कांटा-टू-फार्म कैपिटल

Sacramento किंग्स एक हाइपर स्थानीय भोजन और क्षेत्र के रेस्तरां और भोजन के संचालन के लिए स्थिरता कार्यक्रम के लिए प्रतिबद्ध है । (Sacramento राजाओं की छवि सौजंय से)

14 December, २०१६

अमेरिका के कांटा-टू-फार्म कैपिटल? Since the opening of the Golden 1 Center this past October, Sacramento startup California Safe Soil has been collecting food scraps from the King’s food vendors and turning it into a liquid fertilizer. The collection of uncooked foods by the arena is part of a खेत को लेकर कोर्ट में दर्शन Kings Chairman and Owner, Vivek Ranadivé, released earlier this year. In it, he identified 10 guiding principles that would govern all food, sustainability, sourcing and recycling activities at Golden 1 Center. "हमारे नए क्षेत्र, गोल्डन 1 केंद्र के साथ, हम एक को सीधे लोगों और Sacramento के मूल्यों का संमान मौका देखते हैं," उंहोंने लिखा था । One of the pledges in that statement includes implementing a new waste management plan that would substantially reduce the landfill footprint of the arena. California Safe Soil uses food that would otherwise be buried in a landfill to help farmers grow more crops with less water and chemical fertilizers. "Sacramento अमेरिका के खेत है करने वाली दोराहे कैपिटल है । हम Sacramento अमेरिका के कांटा-फार्म कैपिटल के रूप में अच्छी तरह से करना चाहते हैं, "कैलिफोर्निया सुरक्षित मिट्टी के सीईओ दान Morash कहते हैं । The Kings also announced a plan to source 90 percent of culinary ingredients from growers and producers operating within a 150-mile radius of Golden 1 Center with the support of executive chef Michael Tuohy of Legends Hospitality.

Sacramento है राजा खाद्य और स्थिरता चार्टर एक १५० गोल्डन के मील त्रिज्या के भीतर से पाक सामग्री के ९० प्रतिशत सोर्सिंग के लिए प्रावधान शामिल है 1 केंद्र और स्थाई अपशिष्ट प्रबंधन के माध्यम से है arena landfill पदचिह्न को कम करने प्रथाओं. (Sacramento राजाओं की छवि सौजंय से)

खाद्य अपशिष्ट समस्या

Food waste in the United States is a $१६५,०००,०००,०००-डॉलर की समस्या. खाना है कि संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका में उत्पादित है की ४०% तक कभी नहीं खाया है, लेकिन बस खो दिया है, खाद्य श्रृंखला के हर स्तर पर । सुपरमार्केट एक अनुमानित $१५,०००,०००,००० बेचने फल और सब्जियों अकेले में, USDA के अनुसार खो देते हैं । Where does all this wasted food wind up? In landfills, mostly. In California, 18% of all the trash that goes to landfills comes from food scraps. The problem is not simply one of space. Decomposing food scraps also emit methane, a short-lived, but particularly potent greenhouse gas. यह पिछले अप्रैल शुरुआत, एक landfills से मीथेन गैस के उत्सर्जन को कम करने के प्रयास में, एक नए राज्य के कानून (एबी १८२६) will require businesses in California to recycle their organic waste. The law will also contribute to a statewide goal of कम करने, रीसाइक्लिंग या खाद २०२० द्वारा जैविक अपशिष्ट का ७५%. The California Air Resources Board recently प्रस्तावित to ban the disposal of organic wastes in landfills completely by 2025.   How to handle that waste is an open question. According to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), राज्यव्यापी क्षमता केवल एक-तिहाई के लिए एक जैविक अपशिष्ट के १०,०००,००० टन का आधा है कि कैलिफोर्निया में हवा landfills हर साल.

Sacramento में पाश बंद

California Safe Soil owns the intellectual property rights and a few patents for a technology that deals with both of these problems by creating a liquid fertilizer from food waste in a matter of hours. The company’s founder and CEO, Dan Morash, had seen all kinds of different technology in renewable energy and adaptive reuse of waste over the course of a 30-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. “There weren’t any good technologies for food waste recycling,” he says. When the technology for his product came along, he decided to locate his business in Sacramento for three main reasons. One, the $1.7 billion agricultural market in California, which consists primarily of specialty crops such as fruits, vegetables and nuts. The company decided that local growers of higher margin crops would be more likely to invest in a new product that promises better growth. डेविस में कैलिफोर्निया विश्वविद्यालय के बगल में पता लगाने, देश में अग्रणी कृषि विश्वविद्यालयों में से एक, दोनों उत्पाद की सुरक्षा और फसल के विकास पर प्रभाव का समर्थन अनुसंधान प्रदान की है । The third main reason to set up here was the capital. “If you plan on building any kind of project in the State of California, you had better know your way around the regulatory situation,” Morash says. The company spent the last four years building these relationships and demonstrating their technology in a pilot facility in West Sacramento, before relocating in October to a new commercial-scale facility at the McClellan Business Park.  

कैलिफोर्निया सुरक्षित मिट्टी किराने की दुकानों से खाया खाद्य स्क्रैप इकट्ठा और अब गोल्डन 1 केंद्र arena और यह एक पेटेंट एंजाइमी पाचन प्रौद्योगिकी का उपयोग करने से एक तरल उर्वरक बनाता है । (कैलिफोर्निया सुरक्षित मिट्टी की छवि सौजंय से)

सुपरमार्केट से मिट्टी के लिए

California Safe Soil has long-term contracts with all 225 Save Mart supermarkets and several other California grocery chains, including Safeway, Inc., Nugget Markets, Inc., Whole Foods and Grocery Outlet. The company collects the unsold produce, meat, deli and bakery food wastes within two days of being removed from supermarket shelves. In the plant, this waste is ground up, heated and mixed with enzymes before being pasteurized for safety. "पूंजी आवश्यकताओं को काफी मामूली हैं, ऐसे anaerobic पाचन और खाद के रूप में वैकल्पिक प्रौद्योगिकियों के साथ तुलना में, एक दूर छोटे पर्यावरण पदचिह्न के साथ, और एक अधिक मूल्यवान समाप्त उत्पाद," कैलिफोर्निया विश्वविद्यालय से वैज्ञानिकों डेविस क्लीनर उत्पादन के जर्नल में पिछले साल की सूचना दी । "चूंकि इस प्रक्रिया में कोई महत्वपूर्ण वायु उत्सर्जन, तरल प्रवाह, ठोस अपशिष्ट, या उपद्रव गंध है, यह शहरी क्षेत्रों में सभी आवश्यक ऑपरेटिंग परमिट प्राप्त करने के लिए संभव है." The whole process takes only a few hours, rather than months, like it does in traditional compost, and results in a liquid, organic fertilizer that farmers buy to grow more fruits and vegetables. In field trials, farmers have reported yield increases up to 33%, while using up to 25% less water and reducing the need for costly nitrogen-based fertilizers.

पौधे दिए कैलिफोर्निया सुरक्षित है मिट्टी तरल उर्वरक अधिक जड़ें, जो उंहें मदद करता है और मिट्टी से अधिक पानी और उर्वरक लेने के लिए, पैदावार में वृद्धि और अपशिष्ट कम हो जाना । (कैलिफोर्निया सुरक्षित मिट्टी की छवि सौजंय से)

यह कैसे काम करता है

The company’s flagship product, Harvest-to-Harvest (H2H), can be applied to crops using existing irrigation drip lines. The fertilizer works by stimulating the growth of a diverse population of microbes in the soil, causing the plant to grow more roots, take up more water and fertilizer, and increase flowering and fruiting. The reality underground is much more complex and is the result of a complex web of interrelationships between the billions of microbes living in soil and the plant roots. Plants get carbon from the atmosphere, during photosynthesis, and use it to create the molecular material they need to grow. However, scientists believe that nearly one-third of that carbon is never used, but is released into the soil through the plant’s roots. If this sounds like a loss, it’s not. The microbes that feed on these nutrient-rich secretions can suppress pathogens in soil, break organic matter into nutrients plants can use, and stimulate root growth, among other things. खाद का लक्ष्य है, तो, इस प्राकृतिक प्रक्रिया को दोहराने और इन कार्बनिक पदार्थों के कुछ मिट्टी में वापस डाल द्वारा ऊर्जा संरक्षण है । H2H बस बनाता है यह तेजी से होता है ।

एक सुनहरा अवसर

While most of California Safe Soil’s existing clients are local supermarkets, the company has ambitions to provide their service nationwide, throughout the food supply chain. “One of the appeals of Golden 1, in addition to it being such a landmark for the City of Sacramento, is that it demonstrates one of many other ways that we can make this program work,” says Morash.  The Sacramento Kings discovered California Safe Soil at a स्टार्टअप प्रतियोगिता the team hosted earlier this year.

गोल्डन 1 केंद्र का प्रतिपादन । (Sacramento राजाओं की छवि सौजंय से)

किंग्स मताधिकार, अध्यक्ष Ranadivé कहते हैं, हो सकता है "अच्छे के लिए एक मंच, समुदाय के एक unifier और, हमारी सबसे अच्छी, अद्भुत क्षेत्र टीम घर फोन के लिए एक प्रतीक पर." “When you’re running a league like the NBA, and you’re running a league like the Sacramento Kings, you’re very visible,” says Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Co-Founder of the NBA Green program, Green Sports Alliance and Green Sports International. “Look at it this way. Billions of dollars are spent every year to advertise with sports venues. Why do companies do that? They do that because they must assume that by affiliating with sports somehow, they are going to influence the culture of the marketplace.” Hershkowitz और Sacramento किंग्स ने हाल ही में स्थिरता के लाभों पर सभी 30 एनबीए टीम के अध्यक्षों के लिए एक प्रस्तुति दी । “The situation we’re in is the result of literally hundreds of millions of ecologically ignorant decisions that have been made for centuries. Now we need hundreds of millions of ecologically intelligent decisions to move us forward. And that’s what this represents. The Kings are doing their part,” says Hershkowitz.