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ARTI, India, Biogas from food waste – Ashden Award winner
The Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in Pune has developed a biogas plant which uses food waste rather than manure as feedstock. The plant is sufficiently compact to be used by urban households; over 700 are currently in use and around 100 plants are being installed every month.
Pune is a relatively affluent city in south India where many people use liquid petroleum gas (LPG) or kerosene for cooking. Waste food is often discarded at roadside, as in many cities, attracting stray dogs, flies and rats and creating a public health hazard. The plant can digest that waste as well as waste flour from mills, thus reducing the problem of its disposal. The ARTI biogas plant can, at least, halve the use of LPG or kerosene for cooking, and also provides an effluent which can be used as fertilizer.
The first-prize Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy that ARTI won in 2006 recognized the enormous potential for its biogas digester in towns and cities, both to supply cooking gas and to assist in the disposal of organic waste.
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