Video Collection

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In Kerala, India a company called BIOTECH is running a food-waste-to-energy enterprise:

"BIOTECH has succeeded in tackling the problem of the dumping of food waste in the streets of Kerala through the installation of biogas plants that use the food waste to produce gas for cooking and, in some cases, electricity for lighting; the residue serves as a fertiliser. To date BIOTECH has built and installed an impressive 12,000 domestic plants (160 of which also use human waste from latrines to avoid contamination of ground water), 220 institutional plants and 17 municipal plants that use waste from markets to power generators. The disposal of food waste and the production of clean energy are not the only benefits of BIOTECH's scheme. The plants also replace the equivalent of about 3.7 tonnes/day of LPG and diesel which in turn results in the saving of about 3,700 tonnes/year of CO2, with further savings from the reduction in methane production as a result of the uncontrolled decomposition of waste, and from the transport of LPG."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM9SZyPpm-I&feature=related

Farmer Jose Elanjhimattam demonstrates how he converts dung from his cows into biogas.

Describes how to make a simple, inexpensive composting toilet out of easily available materials.

This video provides an introduction to composting. It esplains why we need to cut down on our waste, why we should compost, and how to do it. COmposting helps break down the soil. In the US we produce 9 lbs of garbage per day when we could instead help the environment and return nutrients to the soil to "complete the web of life".