Food Scraps to Energy Project and Workshop

Planning a Food Scraps to Energy Project     

In 2022, the City of Oceanside received $4.2 million in grant funds from the State to help pay for a project that would locally produce renewable energy from the food scraps and food-soiled materials collected throughout the City. A Food Scraps to Energy Project is being planned to be located at the northeast area of the City of Oceanside's San Luis Rey Water Reclamation Facility.

As part of the planning process, and as required by the State, the City is preparing an environmental document called an Initial Study Mitigated Negative Declaration. The draft document will be available for public review no later than Feb. 24 and the public will have 30 days to submit written comments.

Join Us for a Workshop to Share Your Thoughts

Staff members from the City will be available at the workshop for residents to learn, ask questions and share thoughts about the project. Another workshop will be scheduled in March with details posted on this webpage. We hope to see you there.

Date: February 22, 2023

Time: 5 to 6 p.m.

Location: San Luis Rey Water Reclamation Facility, 3950 N. River Rd. Oceanside, CA 92058

How the Project Would Work

Waste Management will collect food scraps and food-soiled paper from commercial and multi-family customers and deliver the organic materials to an offsite processing facility. Here the materials will be pulverized and highly condensed into a liquified slurry. The organic slurry would then be delivered to the San Luis Rey Water Reclamation Facility in a sealed and watertight truck where it will be pumped into an existing digester to create biogas, an environmentally friendly, renewable energy source.