{"id":18692,"date":"2015-06-08T13:17:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18692"},"modified":"2015-06-08T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:12:49","slug":"how-zoos-are-using-animal-poop-to-power-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/how-zoos-are-using-animal-poop-to-power-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"How Zoos Are Using Animal Poop To Power Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Farmers and ranchers around the world have discovered a resource they often considered a nuisance: the waste\u00a0from their animals<\/a>. By building biogas production systems<\/a> from the relatively simple to the very complex (and expensive), many agricultural operations now run – at least partially – on the animal poop they produce.<\/p>\n

But farms aren’t the only source of such feedstock: as the Detroit Zoo notes, they have to dispose of 400 tons of animal waste each year. So, why not turn some of that poop into power? That’s what Detroit wants to do; the video below (from their Patronicity crowdfunding project<\/a>) shows the potential benefits of sending that waste to an anaerobic digester rather than the dump:<\/p>\n