CLEVELAND, Ohio - Inside FirstEnergy Stadium there is a machine that runs until the work is accomplished. It operates efficiently and consistently for each game. It hungrily takes whatever is thrown at it, does the job, and waits for more.
No, it's not the Cleveland Browns front office. It's a food-waste diversion program run by Grind2Energy. A handful of workers will step into action as soon as a game finishes, scraping food into a sink on Monday and Tuesday, where it goes down a drain, though pipes, and into a large whirring machine a few feet away.