Anaerobic digestion can be applied at numerous facilities these include:
- Waste water treatment (WWT) works (paper mills, industry)
- Sewage treatment works
- Farming consortiums
- Industrial manufactures of organic products
- Breweries, Distilleries
- Food processing and manufacturing
- Waste management facilities
- Chemical and pharmaceutical industry
And there are a variety of suitable organic materials that can be used:
- Sewage sludge and grease sludge
- Liquid manure, solid effluent
- Separately collected bio-waste from households
- Bio-waste from slaughter houses, breweries and distilleries, fruit and wine press houses, dairies, the cellulose industry or sugar production
- Secondary-growth raw materials, e.g. corn silage, non-food grains
- Vegetable oils and animal fats
- Vegetables, vegetation
- Organic municipal solid waste (MSW)