Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the treatment that breaks food waste down in sealed tanks without oxygen. Bacteria turn it into biogas, which is burned for electricity or cleaned into fuel, and digestate, which goes on farmland as fertiliser. It is where a separately collected food bin ends up, and the reason food must be kept out of general waste.
Defined in the Commercial Waste Glossary.
Other terms
- Fly-tipping
- Waste carrier licence
- SIC code
- Dry mixed recycling
- WEEE
- Waste transfer note
- EWC codes
- Waste hierarchy
- Transfer station
- General waste
- Digital waste tracking
- Energy from waste
- Simpler Recycling
- Landfill tax
- POPs
- Commercial waste
- Wait and load
- Trade waste
- Hazardous waste consignment note
- Materials recovery facility
- Duty of care
- Residual waste
- List of Waste code
- Controlled waste
- Upper tier waste carrier
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms