This video can be downloaded here: www.ashdenawards.org BIOTECH an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy won in 2007. For more information, visit the link above and check the Ashden Awards Blog ashdenawards.blogspot.com BIOTECH has succeeded in solving the problem of dumping of food waste in the streets of Kerala through the installation of biogas plants to use food waste to produce gas for cooking and in some cases, electricity for lighting, the residue is used as fertilizer. To date,BIOTECH has built and installed an impressive 12,000 domestic plants (160, of which even human waste from latrines to avoid contamination of groundwater) use, 220 institutional plants and 17 municipal plants, waste from markets for electricity. The disposal of food waste and clean energy production, are not the only benefits of BIOTECH scheme. The plants also replace the equivalent of about 3.7 tonnes of LPG and diesel, which in turn in savings of about 3700Tons / year of CO2, with further savings from the reduction of methane production due to uncontrolled decomposition of waste and transport of LPG.
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