Buckhead Coalition, Georgia Tech team up to fund to fund research system to recycle food waste, raise fish

The Buckhead Coalition has teamed with Georgia Tech to help fund a research system that aims to recycle 1,000 pounds of food waste per day from the local community and provide fresh fish and vegetables as an end result. The "ArkFab" facility is being built on the four-acre wheat Street Gardens, next to the Martin Luther King Center, by three Georgia Tech student groups. It aims to raise fish in tanks with plants cultivated to grow in water. It is largely funded by Ford Motor Co. To build insulating walls for the facility, students plan to pull discarded tires from Buckhead creeks and transport them to the ArkFab site, which is designed to provide 500 pounds of fresh fish and vegetables per month for inner city residents. The Buckhead Coalition, a civic group, pledged $2,500 to help pay for a system to regulate the temperature inside the project's greenhouse during both summer and winter.