Building facilities for the entire program would be a multimillion-dollar project. If successful, the complete county plan would cut by more than 70 percent the total amount of trash and garbage going into the landfill and could extend the site's life to mid-century, Hnatin said. The county has begun an aggressive recycling system to extract aluminum, plastic and other waste for reuse. As you look at public opinion, there's not much alternative. People will not allow anything to be done in their backyard.
Social pressures have to be addressed.
Imagine the unthinkable situation where there is no place to put your solid waste. It would be an untenable situation. The food processing waste is added to the reactors daily. One reactor, using recycled water, converts the garbage into simple organic acids which are then pumped to the second reactor where the bacteria convert the acid into methane gas. The bacteria originally came from the Smucker's plant in Orville, Ohio, which uses them to degrade waste from jelly manufacturing.