Hog waste into biogas: Green solution or greenwashing?

Photo caption: In North Carolina, the state’s 9 million hogs produce 10 billion gallons of waste a year. Article by Melba Newsome. This article was originally published on Yale Environment 360. Republished on GreenBiz – October 7, 2021.

Long before Duplin and Sampson counties became the epicenter of North Carolina’s hog farming industry, Roberta McCalop’s family owned 42 acres of farmland on a dead-end road a stone’s throw from the county line. Raising a small number of hogs was a side business to growing tobacco and cotton for most families in the area, and in their free time the McCalops and their neighbors would sit on their porches, picnic in the shade of massive oak trees and play games in the yard. […]

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