Overview
- Organizers and partners dismantled the America250-themed sculpture Sunday at the Farm Show Complex and sent the butter to Reinford Farms in Mifflintown.
- Brett Reinford said the butter went into an anaerobic digester to produce methane that powers generators supplying electricity to nearby homes.
- It took roughly three to four hours to break down the 1,000 pounds of butter before biogas generation.
- Reinford Farms operates two digesters on a 1,100-acre dairy and processes additional food waste from retailers alongside the sculpture butter.
- Coverage cites conflicting annual diversion figures for the farm’s food-waste program, reporting either about 60,000 tons or about 60,000 pounds.