The United States reportedly wastes up to 30% of its food, which works out to be just over 48 Billion dollars worth of wasted food.
Though turning the tides of this global food wasting problem may be a while away, the Gaia Corporation has designed a new type of waste recycling system that is both economically feasible to implement and environmentally friendly to use.
Gaia Corporation is the leading provider of organic waste recycling systems that, with 18 years of research and operational experience, has designed their new systems with a more effective way of recycling organic waste.
Gaia Corporation has been in full production of their organic waste recycling systems since 1992, and now, through their new patented double helix shredder and blade technology designs, which were developed in Korea, they have been able to successfully accelerate the decomposition process of organic materials.
The idea behind recycling food scraps is to turn all of this scrap material into something that we can use, all the while reducing the effects that the waste has on the environment.
Gaia's waste recycling systems can turn organic waste into rich soil amendments as well as energy resources.
Their organic waste systems currently process just under 80 tons of organic waste daily and can reduce the volume and weight by up to 90%.
Gaia has been awarded the "Best food waste processing machine" in Korea, and they hold over 40 registered and applied patents.
Gaia Corporation is planning on expanding their presence into the United States, through the launch of GaiaRecycle, LLC, which is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA, and is planning to hold their showcase at the Waste Expo of 2010, in Atlanta.
(Gaia booth #4715) Gaia's waste recycling systems come in a variety of shapes and sizes that are capable of recycling anywhere from as low as 60 pounds to as high as 2,650 pounds of organic waste a day each.
A unique feature that GaiaRecycle provides is the option for extracting animal oils for high quality bio diesel refinement.
With GaiaRecycle's newly implemented patented double helix design technology, their organic recycling systems will now accept a wide variety of scraps; including everything from general food scraps and organic waste to chicken bones all without causing jamming within the system.
As a direct result of Gaia's new efficiently designed organic waste recycling systems, the overall maintenance and operational costs; as well as general downtime being caused by backups, have been considerably reduced.
In addition, Gaia has also patented and deployed a new proprietary six step deodorizing process to eliminate unpleasant odor.
The CEO of Gaia Corporation stated this in regards to the organic waste within the United States and the deployment of GaiaRecycle: "Gaia's deployment of organic waste recycling systems in Asia and Europe over the last decade is helping to divert 80,000+ kg of organic waste into valuable resources daily, The Environmental Protection Agency has stated that food waste represents over 30 percent of solid waste every year in the U.
S.
, and food scraps are the largest organic segment that has not been successfully addressed.
We are very excited to launch GaiaRecycle to expand this technology into the U.
S.
since waste is both a global and an environmental issue.
" GaiaRecycle plans to target the large industrial sources of organic waste within the United States, but also wants to provide a cost effective solution to food service providers like food retailers and livestock processing plants.
They have compact units that require very little maintenance and are rather easy to install on-site.
With these new recycling systems that introduce Gaia Corporation's new patented double helix shredder and blade design technology, as well as their patented proprietary six step deodorizing process to eliminate unpleasant odor; Gaia Corporation is confident in their outreach to the United States as well as their ability to provide systems that will meet both industrial size needs as well as the needs of smaller locations were the size and cost of the units are of major concern.
Other than large scale industrial plants, some places where organic waste recycling systems would have the most impact would be:

• Restaurants, hotels, theme parks, casinos, stadiums and schools
• Supermarkets, major wholesale stores and food retailers
• Food manufacturers
• Agricultural, animal and dairy farms
• Livestock processing plants
• Compost facilities