Dickinson College in Carlisle, Cumberland County will host a panel discussion about the environmental and business aspects of food waste and how it impacts climate change.

The event, “The Business of Food Waste: Climate Mitigation through Organics Recycling,” will take place March 24, from noon – 1:00 p.m. in the Stern Center Great Room, 208 W. Louther Street.

It is free and open to the public. Well-fitting masks are required, and N95 or KN95 masks are strongly recommended.

The event will not be live-streamed, but it will be recorded and posted on the Clarke Forum webpage.

The event will explore food waste recycling using examples from the food and livestock waste-to-energy system being developed by the Dickinson College Farm and the most recent anaerobic digester project by Bioenergy Devco, a developer of large, commercial anaerobic digester systems focused on food waste.

Their latest project in Jessup, Md. will process 110,000 tons of food waste per year into renewable natural gas and nutrient-rich soil amendment.

The panelists include--

-- Peter Ettinger is the chief strategy officer at Bioenergy Devco where he has more than 20 years of expertise in business and operational development. Ettinger tailors Bioenergy Devco’s anaerobic digester facility development and management to ensure municipalities and corporations get the optimal waste management solution to accommodate their needs. He has taught entrepreneurship and commercialization strategies at Johns Hopkins Medical School in addition to profitably selling several of his own ventures.

-- Matt Steiman is the energy and livestock projects manager at the Dickinson College Farm. He has worked in organic farming with a secondary specialty in renewable energy systems. He is pursuing a master’s in environmental pollution control from Penn State University, focusing on anaerobic digestion of food and agricultural wastes. Steiman co-manages the college farm’s food scraps compost project and is leading development of the farm’s large scale waste-to-energy biogas system.

-- Marcus M. Key Jr. is the Joseph Priestley Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dickinson College. He has been teaching at the college for 33 years and his teaching interests include energy resources and climate change. His paleoclimate research involves quantifying seasonal variation in temperature through time. He will serve as the panel’s moderator.

The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Dickinson College Farm.

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