Bangalore explores household biogas plants to combat garbage problem

In India, Bangalore’s city government is searching for an efficient way to handle garbage by converting it to biogas. Several companies presented options to the city government, including Synod Bioscience Pvt Ltd, who demonstrated a decentralized model where individual households can set up their own biogas production and utilization unit near their homes. Households could place leftover food, vegetable wastes, non-edible oil and animal excreta into the plant’s main digester and use the biogas to power stoves. They could also use the slurry byproduct as fertilizer. The city government will review the presentations and ask the Karnataka State Biofuel Development Board to monitor the project once a company is selected.