Promoting sustainable global business practices in Tampa Bay

• TBD Cafe, a brainchild of 7th Sky founder Isabella Rosal, collaborated with USF researchers on a study to evaluate the effects of anaerobic digestion of food waste using tea leaves.
• The post-consumer food waste was collected from USF dining facilities, processed, and mixed with oolong, green, and black tea leaves provided by TBD Cafe.
• The researchers compared the anaerobic digestion of the food waste alone vs. mixed with the tea leaves and found that the addition of the tea leaves resulted in significantly higher production of valuable biomethane gas.

This important discovery shed light on the role that the tea industry can play globally in meeting recycling goals by improving bioenergy production. 

The project received wide recognition among the environmental science experts and was covered by a variety of news media.  Check out this issue of Florida Water Resources Journal

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DIGITAL COMMONS - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

Florida Water Resources Journal