How Rotting Vegetables Make Electricity | World Wide Waste
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- Every year, 1.3 billion tons of food gets thrown away. But instead of sending unsold vegetables to a landfill, the Bowenpally market converts them into biogas. It’s a clean energy source that powers buildings, streetlights, and a kitchen that serves 800 meals a day.
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How Rotting Vegetables Make Electricity | World Wide Waste
Farmers here in Germany often grow Corn just to use it in biogas Powerplants, because selling the electricity is way more lucrative than the actual Corn itself.
Yes, at roughly $0.36 per kw/h that is probably worth it. Very good farmers can find new ways to make money there. Where i live in the US electricity is produced from coal and costs $0.08 per kw/h so no farmer would ever consider doing that.
@@elijahhmarshall wao! Here in Pakistan we pay around 0.1-0.12 USD per kwh on avg. It feels even more expensive if we factor in per capita income.
I wish we the poor filipino know that business.
It would be awesome if they could actually purchase landfield wastes from other countries in order to reduce that volume, that way, the other countries would be able to spend that profit on new Biogas facilities..... But that's how economics works. A country will achieve economic success but that will imply another country economic failure
Neo liberalism bro
Farming crops just to burn as fuel is energy negative though, it makes things worse.
Stuff like this is incredible.
Those biogas has been used for many years. An 8m^3 backyard biogas plant cost around 3000RMB (USD$500) in China. But only around half of the installed plants are being operated.
Okay, This is something that HAS to be implemented into American cities etc.
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I know a dude that did the same thing as was able to go back to the future
@Heisenberg Says shut up man
Govt of india is giving subsidy to setup miniature version of this in homes and cost around 8500 or ~ $ 125 after subsidy , i recently enquired after our fuel price were increased.
Information related to it like
Links and videos
my grandafther has this setup on his farm in punjab. I dont think it's worth it if you want to try this will a small amount of waste material. He has tons of waste from animals and crops so it works for him but for a small household, i dont see this working as a cheaper energy alternative. I think solar would be a better investment.
@@SR-hl5vz it can work as you can buy waste from any gawshala near you or from farmers and mandis.
@@AS-ug2vq yea , but its very labor intensive work. A lot of machinery and upkeep costs. It would be better and more cost effective to go with batteries/solar for residential use.
@@SR-hl5vz I've this setup but we do foundry/forging work (making knifes), all other fuels are much more expensive and cheaper ones are dirty like coal. So we've been using biogas for melting metals.
My heart hurts watching all the vegetables go to waste, but it's great that people are doing something about it in return. How great would it be if all the counties in the world follow suit.
these vegetables are rotten
Bro this is wasted food not brand new store bought
@@ramg658 Some of these just weren't bought and would rot, but otherwise would be edible.
@@ramg658 If the vegetables does not look aesthetically pleasing for the markets they are thrown on
At least if overpopulation becomes too much we’re fuel in this case.
This could actually be a really good business in the US since a lot of paves just have literal dumpsters of food wasted
Doesn't work with fats oil and meat tho only with veggies
@@nikkix1087 ah, so no biogas could ever be made in America
Is that true anyway? They say in the video it's almost all organic waste, including feces
@@acidset yes
This happens during the process of decomposition anything that you can throw under soil and can't find 2-3 weeks later can be used
@@acidset cow / cattle feces can be used for biogas
My local council has something similar, where there's a separate bin for kitchen waste, and is collected once a week. Then it is processed and turned in to electricity to power the street lamps.
Baba Gandu
Grape 🍇
@Baba Gandu firstly I'm proud to be Pakistani.
Secondly I'm British. (you ignorant ninconpoop)
And finally that's an old meme, get with the times kid.
@@ishaqazad5662 chill
@@ishaqazad5662 🍇🍇🍇🍇
They're just being idiots, ignore them.
We've had this for years in Sweden. They even run the dumptrucks collecting the food waste from homes on biogas 😁
Scandinavia is amazing
yes, in India landfills are being cleared by this method.
This is a old practice
Biogas has been used since the 80's in india
We also used to feed vegetable scarap,or non sellable vegetables as cattle,and chicken feed
We made the most unedible scraps into compost
or now biogas
But reusing food waste is a 5,000 year old practice
Dating from the start of hindusim
The west ahs been late to start.
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@Nikhil Prem achha theek hai
What these people are doing is truly amazing, if only everyone could see the bigger picture
It's not about a bigger picture you hippy it's the fact you can't sell a product noone wants for more than what they are buying it for people don't work that way
@@phuckyoutube5927 I don't think he's taking about consumers, plus these kind of projects need to happen so that eventually they run so efficiently that they become viable
Open up a little...
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Yeah I don't think it would produce enough power to power the US
@@salvation7779 but hey at least trash has its use now
This is the kind of resourcefulness that we need more of in Western society.
It's too expensive when you can pay your workers a dollar a day it helps with the Margin
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@Baba Gandu but horrible for the environment
@Baba Gandu I don’t think breaking even helps the environment in anyway.
It creates methane... You want to ban meat because cows burp and fart like humans. You're "western" country has banned this.
India men is wise as hell. Huge respect.
Frugality and pragmatism.
we're frugal, and tend to save money on anything possible.
@Aging Bambino lol only some extremely religious people in the city of Varanasi do it, most indians are against that, there are alot of cleaning Campions to clean the rivers , but it will take time
@Aging Bambino jihadi spotted
@Aging Bambino Yes we bathe in our rivers. Yes we disperse the remains of the burnt bodies in our rivers as part of our culture. You have a problem with it, so be it. We are least bothered.
And yes, in some places we pump raw sewage in our rivers just like you guys did few decades/years ago. And that has already improved a lot and will continue.
I live 10 mins away and this plant, and it has been all over the media in the last few weeks. Even our PM mentioned about it.
amazing.
I would really love to know more about this !!!
Great re-use of waste to help with our energy consumption. Although it’s more expensive now, it seems like it would be worth while as an alternative energy source.
many farms use this now as methane from cows is 20x stronger greenhouse gas than car pollution. so hooking up tubes to the cows methane and it uses cow gas to power the generator now using methane for free on the farm.
its in use in india since a long time, and there is literally no cost involved except setting it up, in my village we have 5 such plants, mainly animal dung is used and it produces enough biogas provide it to 150 houses.
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It's not more expensive. It's cheaper. It's just not profitable enough to pay US labor.
@@LoggyWD It's cheaper because the model is a decentralized one and generally only works at an individual househould-level for farmers living in rural areas as they already produce enough organic waste to use as a fuel.
It might work in places in rural US where there is a lot of local farms that can transport organic waste with not too much cost to the platnt, but they would also have to compete with other energy prices like coal, natural gas, wind, solar, etc., which is the main problem.
Well done India .Long way to go but at least it's a start. God Bless you all .
Hello bro, india is practicing this method since thousands of years.....🌿its not the start, the western people had put a break to that...
@@karkalavigneshreddy2586 no, we had literally no use for electricity. now we do. there was no point in doing this at that time
@@karkalavigneshreddy2586 no, we had literally no use for electricity. now we do. there was no point in doing this at that time
Bro it's a year's old practice we used , you just came to know this thing right now , use of biogas Is no new atall , atleast not new in Gujarat...
This is the most amazing recycle process I have ever recall that gives back to the farmers as well as the civilians...simply incredible. Except, it is no longer 'Food Waste', but 'Food Laced'.
Excellence at it's best!
U have recorded this?!
Imagine if the US developed something like this but on a larger scale, I believe that we in the US waste more food than anywhere else in the world.
America:**INFINITE POWER**
You could send the food to Africa instead
imagine if you knew what actually happens instead of living your life online
@@hn308 then what'll happen to he local food industries?? First they can just donate it to hungry people in the USA itself because its much cheaper and the shipping is gonna be expensive .
@@hn308 although I haven't visited Africa yet I don't think all are just starving,
"I use the food to cook the food"
Logic!
"I use the poop to cook the food"
Best comment
Absolutely.... Agree
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Deep appreciation for clean energy advancement in the South. Amazing! Hopefully the rest of the country catches up.
Goverment has launched SATAT with 70 billion dollars investment for biogass.
@@Abhishek-sr2pu Shame that as Indians we don't know whats happening in the country
@@sathvikpasumarthy
Well the media is more Instersted in bollywood
@@Abhishek-sr2pu not 70, it's 10 billion dollars
@@arullgodwin4729 no it's 40
Producing conventional energy on an industrial scale through discarded food is a way to sustain our planet's ecological conditions.
Problem is that idiots will echo is that "theres starving kids somewhere else so why are you burning it"
@@Mystickrage they can say it but it isn't a valid argument for turning waste into both an energy source fertilizer.
If you haven't already, watch the film The Good Lie, which is based on the true story of a group of refugees from the African country Sudan who came to the U.S. just before 9/11/2001. 1 of the characters worked at a grocery store who was shocked that so much good food was just thrown away, and when he was told by his boss not to give homeless people the food the store throws away he quit his job in protest.
Thanks for telling us
The grocery stores can't give food away. Liability reasons.
Thank the lawyers for that one.
@@conradmcdougall3629 that’s a lie
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@@conradmcdougall3629 good samaritan law on food waste has been passed decades ago.
www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/partners/become-a-product-partner/food-partners
The main problem is that stores don't want homeless people to congregate in front of their store waiting for food donation every evening. A bunch of homelss people loitering around stores are not exactly good for business
Anybody working for a sustainable, clean future is a Nobel prize winner in my book!
Its an old practice now in india
Mostly farmers use this they use food waste and animal dung to make biogas and the waste out of it is used as compost
Yes these should be implemented in every places.
Reducing garbage is important, also this will help energy independence.
Most cities in India have natural gas buses.
I live just 5km away from this market, have seen the work they are doing. Hope other places also follow the same.
I love this. It's sustainable and decreases the amount of waste food.
It doesn't decrease the food waste but it uses the wasted food
@@fanbasek2023p which would just turn into useable compost anyway..
@@silencedissent9120 manure, biogas many things. I couldn't understand the point you are trying to make
@@fanbasek2023p if you don't do anything to organic waste, it will give you compost. For free. Little work involved and you can use it to grow more food.
@@silencedissent9120 yeah but not quick and also if a lot a compost just accumulates at a place it could diseases
Unsold fresh pumpkins, carats, tomatoes should be fed to cows in summer season....Only rotten pumpkins and other rotten vegetables should be used for biogas generation
You need to take into account stuff like contamination because the rotten food was in contact with the fresh food. Also, cows are fed a special diet to keep their fat levels and health at a good condition. And taking out the fresh food, which probably makes up the majority of their supply, would produce far less electricity.
@@willpark3094 This wholesale fruit and veggie market is in the city, can be costly to transport to the farms st outskirts. So they just leave there.
@@Aloewells yet they cant give to the poor
@@ElonHusky they are unsold stock....not rotten...so much edible food is simply thrown away..why if they give away free then they would lose some potential customers....
@@zion3335 it's fair because these people are poor as well.
3:44 and E.U, United Nations and Teenage environmental activists blames Asian countries for not focusing on more sustainable steps to reduce pollution...🤔😂
@Nikhil Prem yeah that's true and most important they destroyed world with two world wars and still want war in middle East 😂😂
thats great i hope they find a way to lower the cost because in the usa some Farmers are required to Dump a whole season worth of crops this could be sold if they come up with a industrial size one that a Farmers can afford (i wont go into the Mandatory requirements just to sell your own produce) place out back dump all that was into this gas to be Sold at least they could have some profit for the season
Maybe they could find a dairy farmer or any other husbandry farmer to do a deal with since their farms have these already to deal with their animal waste
Biogas plants are pretty cheap tho
In India portable ones cost 200-300 dollars industrial size costs more but they are totally reasonable
There are several different kinds of biogas plants of varying sizes. Some small local produce markets have their own biogas plants. There are even those that can be used in individual households, where it's used as cooking gas
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I love how resourceful people can be simply, from the waste that we regard as unsafe to consume anymore
This is from my place,HYDERABAD. The technology is old but using it right way at right place is marvelous. B4 this some mkts used them for VERMICOMPOST. I say that market should buy leftover vegetables from farmers/sellers at minimal price. The leftovers can be massively needed to transport to a dump yard in outskirts, which costs transport .If left at market, stinks and pollutes atmosphere, becomes breeding ground for flies and diseases, bad for Mkting business and consumers. It's a self sustainable generation of biogas to electricity, reduces electric bills.atlast Good for environment.
We need this in every state and city!!!
Awesome initiative from Indian team. I as an Engineer will appreciate their efforts to convert useful form of energy....
Business insider might have modivated a lot of peaple to recycle and educate peaple and make the world clean
Hats off to their amazing work.. from Hyderabad❤❤
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@@vaishnavisrinivas1759 Yea bro
Wtf man You're from Hyderabad ?
@@ernestkhalimov9368 thats not the real mustache man
It is very important that initiatives like this are developed in different markets around the globe. Our dependence on fossil fuels would certainly be minimal
This is the kind of content the world needs to see more of!
love this so much and it's such a great reminder that there are solutions for these materials. It is a shame that vegetable are wasted and there's many reasons why it happens....creating multiple solutions from waste is genius! Thanks for doing a video like this - more please!
More demand will hopefully make biogas cheaper. As a Millennial I'd like to see that in my lifetime.
As you may know.....If the petro-chemical gangs, who run the govment here, and most other nations, didn't usage-TAX the more of the recyclable bio-gas uses, the price would, and could be cheaper!
Since they'd rather be shipping their millions of barrels of oil form thousands of mile away, it would, and should be a hole lot cheaper! Replace the mo-mop-poliezers, and DOWN goes to the price to say 20 cents a gallon, or equivalent in gaseous terms! We have to change the gang running the script, before we can re-write the price of the show!
Thanks for the upload, perfect timing since part of my final year Architecture project is to do with anaerobic digestion
this is pretty cool. i work at a utility in CA that's working on going 100% green within like next 10 years. i wish they would've talked about the cost difference between say this and solar, etc
Nature is really amazing. In nature you don't need to fix anything It is automatic thing the only caveat is that all of us have to be patience & decrease our demands
I'm from hyd, telangana, India. It's all possible due to visionary leadership of our scientists, farmers. Please come to telangana and look around the innovation going around in our state.
Good work India!
It's Like A Complete Cycle,So Satisfying
Great idea in Recycling and Saving the Environment....👍👍👍👍😍 I'm sold
Respect for these people🙌🙌🙏
The job that they do is so satisfying but just imagine the smell
Thanks lot for nice Sharing!
Stay safe and peaceful my dear friend 🌷🌹💌
One thing I don't like about ourselves is that we don't keep our surroundings clean like most europeans do. Have a look at how filthy the factory and streets near the factory were. People don't know the importance of cleanliness. I hope Asia learns this from the western world. We still lack behind.
I thing things improved alot in last 5-10 years , I see now most of the people taking care of these thing now , yup in street market they don't alot ,
It is a dumpyard what do you expect lol . Hyderabad is lot cleaner than lot of other cities in india
We’re catching up to the future with this real world application of Doc Brown’s “Mr. Fusion” concept of trash to energy.
Can incinerate solid waste to produce energy too?
So this is just standard where I live, we got busses powered by the stuff. It's as simple as just catching the gasses from the compost production.
Yeah use electricity and lots of labour to generate some electricity...
I remembered, some 35 years back, we used to feed thousands of stray pigs and cows with waste vegetables. In return we get tons of cow dung, which was further used to generate biogas.
We didn't needed costly crusher machines, nor we required lots of labour for these activities.
Love from India (Haryana)
Big props to India. You guys find these low return- high impact projects that wouldn't even take off in any other country for the soul purpose of making the earth more liveable. Respect goes to all the innovators and the governments. Keep up the good work.
Proud of India❤️🇮🇳
Just don't keep posting proud comments everywhere. No one is here to see Ur pride
Over pride people with over population 🤦♂
Good to see my home city Hyderabad in Business Insider.
Its gr8 and happy to have such recycling of energy nd save earth to the extent we can.
Wish Govts concentrate more on this and people encourage dis👍👍
Happy to see this article of our state in this channel 😊
It'd be great to have this supplement the power grid, especially the renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
Bio Gas is actually a Must in the state of Kerala in India.
This is the way to make reducing of landfills, excellent job by govt. of kerala!
What ....? Rubbish 🤣
Not only the project is amazing, i think it offers a lot of jobs and women work there too. That's so cool!
It sure uses a lot of petroleum, electricity, and equipment (embedded energy) to produce that energy. Also, all that uneaten food represents natural areas that were taken from wildlife. If this video addressed the bigger picture, including over consumption of energy and energy wasted by industrial food systems then it might not feel like such a greenwash.
This is just genius work
0:45 BONK
Got to recycle jail
Even in my small town has biogas plant for food waste. Town municipality collects segregated waste to do this.
Very good thinking and a very good project. More Governments and corporations/companies need to work on this idea 💡 to make this world a better place to live 👏
Delhi has numerous and huge vegetable markets
This could easily be implemented in there.
Hopefully Delhi government wakes up.
Not just electricity, now we in India also have Ethanol produced from vegetables. This ethanol is blended with petrol for less pollution and better combustion.
I want use this type of ideas in my village- Great initiative,thank you
It's beautiful seeing people try to make the world better like this
Wrong question to ask. We should be asking "How can we stop wasting so much food?"
I think there is a space for both questions. Reduction of sources of food waste is perhaps a better question to answer, but even if food waste sources are reduced there will still be food waste from perishable goods, so finding uses for food waste will always have some amount of relevance.
We can't stop food wastage, we just have to find ways to use it.
People don't intentionally "want to waste food". Farmers looking to make a profit grow vegetables on land they already own. They have no way of knowing in advance how much of their produce they can sell, so they just sell everything they got from their fields. Sometimes they sell a lot, and sometimes, at the end of the day, they still have a lot that didn't sell. These are the ones that are being dumped at the market.
In other words, the situation exists not because some some people are "being wasteful" like people who take a lot of food at a buffet but don't finish off their plates. Just farmers trying their luck with supply and demand. Hopefully journalistic bodies such as Business Insider could do their jobs properly and educate the masses instead of wording things vaguely.
Stop eating at restaurants. Supermarket waste 10% tops. Restaurants can waste 50% or more. The profit margin determines how much is wasted.
@@LoggyWD easier said than done.
1. Restaurants provide convenience to those who cannot prepare food at home
2. People will lose jobs if most people stop eating in restaurants.
I'm sure there are other points to be raised but you get the gist of it.
I always knew my poops could be epic if just given the chance.
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Turn waste to gold with some creativity. 😎
lol
Lived in this city all my life and just got to know about this! I am so proud of their efforts 🙌
Biogas have been used in most parts of the world as energy source looong time ago. Don't see whye Business Insider is so amazed by this conventional methog when most countries are trying to go full Carbon 0, biogas even if in lesser quantities still pollutes the atmosphere.
Indonesia needs something like this!!
Dirty Jobs did an episode about a US plant that does something similar. Ever since watching that, it's been in the back of my brain as something that should be adopted worldwide.
This is brilliant. Clean energy is the way to go!
This is very useful for all of us. Thanks
It's fun when you know both languages👄💬
one word : AMAZING👍
We need more brilliant ideas like this. Not to replace fossit fuels like they said but to reduce the amount of waste were generating.
Farmers and packers should have access to this here in the US. Number 2 and 3 normally get processed or tossed out. At home use would be awesome too. Help cut down on reliance for electricity.
That's my town and I'm proud of it ❤️
Good on yer
nice👍
this is so cool!
I live 5km away from this place n I am learning about this just now!
Honestly biggest positive to this is the compost/fertilizer that restores the soil. Healthy, nutrient rich soil produces more food, which can create more waste for the biogas plant, if it's not sold or goes bad.
But if a portion of the food went to feed cattle, pigs, chickens, fish and prawns (in aquaponic systems) first and then their waste was added to the other portion and then went to the biogas plant, it are actually increasing the overall positive output.
So incredible!
We produce so much waste. Any opportunities we have to make productive use of that waste should be taken advantage of.
I love this and am planning to buy a biogas digester as soon as I move, but the title says electricity but the story barely mentions it. So what is the method to convert the biogas to electricity so it can run lights etc? Do you run a generator with the biogas or something?
This is one of the easiest and affordable ways of meeting huge Energy demands in India....
*Fact* : India is investing 20 billion dollars to produce CBG (Compressed Biogas) as one of the sources of while trying to reduce Carbon Footprint ...
This is perfect 👌
This is so impressive
Beyoundddddd awesome....hats off to the companies who do this..
A wonderful step towards better future😃
I wonder, does a similar proces produce ethanol (alcohol), too? The alcohol could be an even better fuel than mehtane gas.
Almost reached 'Back to the Future' movie's home energy reactor concept. Soon we'll see the miniature version for our homes and vehicles
These are leftovers after feeding stray animals
In the Netherlands (the village Mill) we have a big biogassplantation. The biggest downside is the smell. That strech about 5 km. and the particulate matter is realy high in our area. I hope it is only this one, because its a realy good option besides the smell ;)
Idk why this makes me excited and happy . Somewhere it gives a hope for a cleaner future . India is really incredible. The Indian farmers who are barely literate are far more intelligent than the US government .
Those pumpkins seemed still good to me
They say in the video that farmers can't take all the produce back when they go home, plus some could be bruised and rot quite quickly
the next day it wont be
I am from Hyderabad
Greatly impressed with it..... India has a huge potential....
Very good initiative, here is a humble suggestion- can a tiny budget be allotted to build cleanliness and hygiene alongside so more will be impressed by the idea?