Fujitsu enhances its commitment to the environment

Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. has announced that it has enhanced its commitment to the environment by acquiring a machine to decompose waste food. The machine is installed in the kitchen of the on-site café at the US headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The machine decomposes waste food in real time, sending the output as grey water down the drain.

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The machine that Fujitsu acquired was the LFC-70 from Power Knot LLC, Milpitas, California. The LFC-70 is installed in the kitchen where the waste food is generated. It consumes a small amount of hot water each day and uses a standard 110 V supply. The machine can process 150 lb of waste food per day this is mostly scraps from the preparation of food.

The machine digests the waste food in a matter of hours and never needs emptying. It diverts waste food from the landfill where it would otherwise decompose into methane. Methane (CH4) is 25 times worse for the atmosphere in the long term than carbon dioxide (CO2).

Fujitsu’s motivation to acquire such a machine was not purely for the environment. The LFC can easily pay for itself by the reduction in trash collection.

Core Facts

  1. Fujitsu deploys machine to decompose waste food

  2. Machine sits in kitchen and continuously digests waste

  3. Output is sent as nutrient rich grey water down the drain

  4. Machine saves the cost, incovenience, and mess of sending waste food to a landfill

  5. Machine pays for itself by the reduction of cost of trash

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This machine has the potential of diverting 26,000 pounds of waste food from the landfill annually. When waste food goes to a landfill, it decomposes into methane which is 72 times worse for the environment than carbon dioxide. We realized that the waste food we discarded had a large impact on our carbon footprint and we needed to solve that problem.

Robert Curtis, Environmental, Health, Safety & Security Services Specialist at Fujitsu

The environment is Fujitsu’s prime concern, however most of what we do to support the environment has a long term positive impact on our bottom line. We believe the payback on the LFC-70 will be 24 months or less, due to the reduction of trash going to the landfill.

Marty Engh, Director of Facilities Services at Fujitsu

Company information

Power Knot provides safe and economically sound solutions for commercial, industrial, and military customers globally seeking to reduce their carbon footprint. The Liquid Food Composter (LFC) allows customers to reduce the expense, inconvenience, and mess of disposing of waste food that would otherwise be hauled to a landfill. Models are available that process from 100 lb per day to 2000 lb per day of waste food. Our technologies are proven, available today, have been in reliable use for many years, and offer a payback period typically of less than four years. Power Knot has its headquarters in Milpitas California. For more information, access www.powerknot.com.

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