--- title: NY Times Magazine Features American Organic Energy's Charles Vigliotti description: New York Times Magazine offers a comprehensive profile of AOE’s chief Executive Charles Vigliotti in “The Compost King of New York.” image: https://www.usbiopower.com/hubfs/AmericanOrganicEnergy_Blog_TheKingOfCompost.jpg --- [Skip to Main Content](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/ny-times-magazine-features-american-organic-energys-charles-vigliotti#main_content) [Skip to Sidebar](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/ny-times-magazine-features-american-organic-energys-charles-vigliotti#blog_sidebar) [Skip to Recent Articles](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/ny-times-magazine-features-american-organic-energys-charles-vigliotti#recent_articles) [Skip to Footer](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/ny-times-magazine-features-american-organic-energys-charles-vigliotti#contentinfo) [![American Organic Energy Logo](https://www.usbiopower.com/hubfs/2019Mockup/Logo/american-organic-energy-logo.png?noresize)](https://www.usbiopower.com) [News](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/topic/news)  [American Organic Energy](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/topic/american-organic-energy)  [Anaerobic Digester](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/topic/anaerobic-digester)  [Food Waste](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/topic/food-waste) Published by [American Organic Energy](https://www.usbiopower.com/newsroom/author/american-organic-energy) on February 15, 2017 # NY Times Magazine Features American Organic Energy's Charles Vigliotti New York Times Magazine offers a comprehensive profile of AOE’s chief Executive Charles Vigliotti in “The Compost King of New York.” ![NY Times image - The Compost King of New York with photo of Charles Vigliotti](https://www.usbiopower.com/hubfs/AmericanOrganicEnergy_Blog_TheKingOfCompost.jpg)   Elizabeth Royte, in the New York Times Magazine, writes a comprehensive profile of American Organic Energy’s chief Executive Charles Vigliotti in the New York Times Magazine titled “The Compost King of New York.” Royte outlines Vigliotti’s vision of a “food-waste-fueled clean-energy future,” beginning with his soon-to-be-built anaerobic digester facility due to break ground in Yaphank [this spring](https://www.usbiopower.com/dec-approves-construction-landmark-facility-yaphank/). Royte accompanies Vigliotti to the site grounds, taking in the massive structure to be built. She notes the limitations of traditional composting, particularly when food waste includes fish, meat, and greases. An [anerobic digester](https://www.usbiopower.com/organic-energy/anaerobic-digester/) facility will not only be able to handle vastly more material than Long Island Compost, Vigliottii's sister company, and other such organizations, but will process them cleaner, with far less odor, more quickly, and with the ability to make use of all of the end products. The 50 million dollar digester facility will be the largest such project this side of Mississippi and the most sophisticated. Partnering with GE Water and Process Technologies and Scott’s Miracle-Gro, the Yaphank facility will be able to sort, separate, and process 180,000 tons of food waste material, converting it into renewable energy in the form of biogas and electricity, as well as compost, nutrient-rich plant food, and fertilizer. It will not only be completely sustainable, but extremely lucrative. This project is but the first in the metropolitan area. If all goes according to plan, several smaller such units will be built in the future to handle the five boroughs’ food waste. Read more [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/magazine/the-compost-king-of-new-york.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&action=click&contentCollection=magazine®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0). 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