Beijing Goldenway Bio-Tech

Beijing produces 18,000 tons of garbage every day.  This is enough to fill 29 Rose Bowls each year.  Because of the tremendous waste volume and land constraints they face, China is becoming the center of rethinking and reinventing garbage management.  Chinese companies are developing cutting edge recycling technology that could soon render landfills and incinerators obsolete - - or at least much less common.

Beijing Goldenway Bio-Tech has developed a system that can transform up to 400 tons of food waste per day into fertilizer.  The odorless process uses specially manufactured enzyme that breaks down waste in just 10 hours , resulting in a brown powder Goldenway says is ideal for growing organic crops.  The company operates 10 such plants throughout China, though it encountered resistance from residents worried about health problems and foul smells when it unveiled plans for a facility in Beijing.