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The ZooShare plant was financed through the sale of Community Bonds, a local investment opportunity that allows members of the public to support a project that benefits the environment and earn a return on their investment. Each year, ZooShare’s biogas plant diverts 15K tonnes of inedible local food waste from landfills, reduces C02-equivalent emissions by…

• It diverts waste from landfills• It recycles a readily available source of energy• It prevents methane (21x worse than C02) from going into the atmosphere• It generates electricity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week• It stores its own energy, meaning it can dispatch energy whenever it’s needed• It eliminates pathogens and odours…

No, ZooShare does not divert any food from food banks or any charitable programmes. We only use inedible food waste to generate renewable power.

The ZooShare biogas plant has a capacity of 500kW and generates up to 4.1 million kilowatt-hours for the Ontario grid each year, that’s enough to power about 250 homes!

Biogas is the gas created from the breakdown of organic waste. The gas is formed when bacteria eat organic waste and release methane, carbon dioxide and other gases. Instead of letting these greenhouse gases escape into the atmosphere, we capture the gas and store it until it can be used to create energy.

No, ZooShare is a non-profit co-operative separate from the Toronto Zoo. The Zoo holds a permanent position on our Board.

ZooShare is offering public tours of the biogas plant each summer and throughout the fall/spring to school and community groups. Click the link to see available dates and to register. You can also take a virtual tour of the ZooShare biogas project. The virtual tour enables viewers to see how our unique site functions and…

ZooShare Biogas Co-operative was founded in 2011 by Daniel Bida. In 2013, ZooShare received its Feed-In-Tariff Contract and launched its first public bond-offering of $2.2M. In 2015, due to popular demand, ZooShare issued a second and third round of bonds which raised over $1M. In 2019, ZooShare joined forces with Oshawa PUC Energy Services (OPUCES),…