An eco-friendly method to treat garbage may soon come your way
KOCHI: Will there ever be a Kerala where each home is self-sufficient in dealing with its own garbage?
Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) dreams so. KSSP which evicted
smoke from many a Kerala kitchen through its revolutionary, low cost,
smokeless ovens, is now coming out with another 'package', a unit that
can treat all kitchen waste produced in a house and turn it into biogas
which can be used for cooking purposes.
The biogas plant which was developed at the Integrated rural
technology centre (IRTC), the research and training centre of KSSP, has
been designed in such a manner that it is light and can be moved around
easily.
The 500-litre capacity plant, according to KSSP, can produce biogas that lasts for over one and a half hours every day.
Priced at Rs 12,000, the plant comes with the full guarantee of KSSP
and is expected to take care of kitchen waste produced in an average
Malayalee house.
"Three to four kilograms of kitchen waste can be
deposited along with water in the plant, and it would help generation
of nearly two hours of biogas every day. Made of fibre reinforced
plastic, it would last for many years," said VG Gopinathan, registrar,
IRTC.
He said that the biogas plant comes with a burner and a PVC hose for the gas to pass from plant to the stove.
"KSSP would take care of installation and would demonstrate its
function to the customer. Besides kitchen waste, the plant is suitable
to produce gas from water produced during rubber sheet processing and
from animal faecal waste. The residue collected from the plant is a good
bio-manure," he said.
As waste management remains a big issue in
the state, this unit would be helpful in making every house
self-sufficient as far as the
garbage disposal is concerned, he said.
"Treating waste in houses would reduce the load at garbage dumping
yards and would help keep our water bodies and public spaces clean," he
added.
Thiruvananthapuram 14-10-2011: Half of the total expense for installing biogas plants at homes will be given as subsidy by the Government, said CM. He was releasing the 12th Project Policy Paper of Grama Panchayath Association here.