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Chicken farm’s new technology could change the way waste is processed

New technology called EcoRemedy is changing the way chicken poop is processed on the Flint Rock Farm in Lititz, Lancaster County. “Finding more environmen...

New technology called EcoRemedy is changing the way chicken poop is processed on the Flint Rock Farm in Lititz, Lancaster County. “Finding more environmentally friendly ways of dealing with the manure in this area is certainly a wave of the future and it’s something we have to do” said the farms owner Dan Heller.

What it does is take the chicken’s waste and turns it into gas which is used as fuel. “That fuel is then burned and enters a boiler. That boiler makes hot water which is pumped to heat all the chicken houses on the site” said Dave Mooney of Enginuity Energy, which makes the equipment.

It’s the first of it’s kind in Pennsylvania to convert the waste into gas and farmers like Heller plan to use it instead of propane. However the EcoRemedy doesn’t just create gas. It also creates an organic fertilizer with a lot higher concentration of nutrients. Those nutrients are better absorbed by the plants, which means less runoff into areas that have been damaged by chicken fertilizer in the past.

“Too much of a good thing is actually a bad thing. Pennsylvania is the largest contributor of nutrients to the Chesapeake Bay” said Mooney. Those nutrients fuel the growth of algae which kill fish and other wildlife. “This is good for the environment, it’s good for the chesapeake bay. It certainly solves the problem of too many nutrients in the Chesapeake Bay water shed” said Heller.

Watch the video and see the EcoRemedy in action!!

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