American Organic Energy

American Organic Energy is the brainchild of Arnold and Charles Vigliotti, whose combined experience of 80 years in waste management puts them in a unique position to influence the Long Island region’s at-times daunting environmental challenges.

Established as the next generation of organic waste solutions, AOE’s mission is to transform the organic waste disposal practice on Long Island, and quite possibly, the world. It is based on the simple but brilliant concept behind the intelligent reuse of material, designed to replenish the seeds that nourish the communities and landscape of Long Island and the New York metropolitan region, along with the livelihoods of all who live there.

Long Island Compost, launched by the brothers, currently recycles hundreds of thousands of tons of leaves, grass clippings and other landscape-related materials generated by Long Islanders. At the site of the nation’s largest yard-waste transfer station in Yaphank, New York, they transform the waste of more than 2,000 landscaping companies into organic compost, providing an environmentally-sound solution to the region’s organic waste problems.

Not content to stop at this, the Vigliotti brothers seek to take their philosophy to another, more innovative level, by building a cutting-edge food waste processing facility unparalleled in its sophistication and ambition to have maximum environmental impact. Currently under development, this first anaerobic digestion operation in the region is destined to transform the manner in which Long Island handles its waste stream.

Designed as a new, fully enclosed multi-million-dollar facility, this technology will digest food waste taken from supermarkets, restaurants and hospitals and turn this material into a source of energy which will not only help power the operation, but also provide fuel for the trucks that pick up the leftovers.

With the capacity to convert 180,000 tons of organic waste into renewable energy, compost and fertilizer, among other sustainable byproducts, estimates predict this digester will reduce the region’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40,000 tons per year.