Wasatch Resource Recovery is a facility under construction in Salt Lake City that turns organic waste into energy, more specifically, biogas. (Phase 1 of the construction is over, and Phase 2 is underway. The plant is operating already)

Wasatch Resource Recovery has created a program to receive organic, biodegradable waste from a wide range of candidates that includes grocery stores, food and beverage manufacturers, cafeterias, and restaurants among others. The business can divert packaged and unpackaged food waste (including prepared food, fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat, and fats, oil, and grease). The facility will receive and process the food waste.

In the facility, special equipment is in charge of removing contaminants and then grind and liquefy the material to create a slurry suitable for anaerobic digestion. After the digestion, biogas and a biobased fertilizer are obtained.

Wasatch offers a waste treatment as a service. Organizations can contact them through the webpage and get a quote on the waste disposal costs according to the amount of waste produced.

• Business or organizations can divert packaged and/or unpackaged food waste, including prepared food, fruit, vegetables, meat, and dairy, as well as fats, oils & grease (F.O.G.) and other liquids. Due to the fact that Wasatch Resource Recovery is not a waste hauler, they will work directly with your current hauler, or hauler of your choice, to divert your organic wastes to the digester.
• State-of-art equipment that can remove most contaminants including plastic bags

Wasatch Resource Recovery allows the use of organic waste and transforms it into energy and fertilizer. This organic waste can come from either restaurant, grocery store, hotel, caterer, brewery, food processing-manufacturing plant, cafeteria, hospital, school, university, seller or distributor of glass bottled / aluminum canned / plastic bottled beverages among others.