
HomeBiogas 2021 Impact & ESG Report
With a wide portfolio of products, HomeBiogas helps businesses achieve Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Criteria, enabling them to demonstrate their commitment to safeguard the environment.
Read MoreSimple food waste recycling solutions can have a huge impact on our environment.
Food waste recycling could help us reduce over 170 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. That’s close to the CO2 emissions generated by 42 coal-fired power plants. Let’s break down the numbers.
We throw away 900 million tonnes of food annually. Beyond this practice’s social and economic implications, the staggering amount of food waste has severe environmental consequences. Once it ends up in landfills, the waste pollutes groundwater and air as the decomposition process generates large amounts of methane — 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
Food waste recycling can help mitigate the problem with multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits:
Ideally, prevention is the best way to handle food waste. Recycling with intention is the second best option, as we get to turn trash into something useful. Food waste recycling keeps landfills clean, directly impacting water and air quality, and enables us to repurpose resources that otherwise would be lost. When all food gets reused, everybody wins.
You can set up a compost pile or bin depending on how much waste you need to compost. It can be as simple as a designated backyard area or a small indoor container. You can buy your compost bin online or from a local store. Alternatively, you can make your own out of a large plastic container with holes drilled in it.
What you can compost:
Most of your kitchen and garden waste is nitrogen-rich, so you must add carbon-rich materials (brown ingredients) to balance the compost and accelerate decomposition. The purpose is to get close to a 30:1 carbon: nitrogen ratio — which you can achieve by adding four parts of carbon-rich elements for every part of green ingredients.
Items like cardboard egg boxes, wood chips, crumpled newspapers, paper shopping bags, straws, and dead leaves are excellent sources of carbon and fiber. You can also add some soil or compost starter to introduce beneficial microorganisms to your compost.
Mix the ingredients regularly and keep the compound moist, not soggy. Once your compost has finished decomposing, you can use it in your garden or lawn.
Upcycling your food waste as animal feed is a smart way to support your local community while reducing your carbon footprint. The tricks here are to follow simple health and safety best practices when handling food waste and remember that not all food scraps are appropriate for animal consumption.
How to get started:
Collaborating with a local farm to manage food waste can be a daunting process at first. Still, collecting, transporting, and disposing of food waste will become much easier with patience and determination. Moreover, once you understand the farm’s needs, you can work together to create a mutually beneficial relationship that will positively impact the environment and local economy.
Making biogas from food waste in your backyard is relatively easy. All you need is a biogas digester and a fuel collection system.
The digester is a sealed container where anaerobic microorganisms break down organic matter and produce biogas. You can use organic waste like vegetable scraps, fruit peels, or even leftover food to create biogas for cooking, heating, or generating electricity.
How to get started:
The fuel generated by the microorganisms is usually stored in a separate tank or bag. The remaining digested material (digestate) is a nutrient-rich liquid fertilizer, perfect for your garden or lawn.
All food waste recycling methods follow the same principles and best practices.
A HomeBiogas system enables homeowners to produce biogas from kitchen scraps in their backyards. It’s an effective tool for turning waste into energy with minimum effort!
The HomeBiogas digesters are compact and straightforward to install and use, making it a hassle-free process for homeowners. You won’t have to worry about complicated instructions or any technical know-how. Households, schools, businesses, and nonprofit organizations worldwide use this technology successfully to upcycle organic waste and generate biogas.
The system includes all the equipment you need to get started: a biodigester, an inlet sink with a plunger, a gas pipe, a combined fertilizer and gas outlet, a counter-top biogas stove, and complete instructions to help you install your biogas station in your backyard.
When using a HomeBiogas system to turn food waste into cooking gas and fertilizer, you produce up to 6 hours of clean energy daily. Not only will you be reducing the amount of food waste in landfills, but you’ll also be lowering your greenhouse gas emissions by up to six tons of CO2 per year. And the fertilizer can go back to feed the soil and help you keep your garden and lawn in perfect shape.
Food waste recycling at home is one of those small changes that can significantly impact the environment. The more people understand the importance of being intentional with how much food they buy and what they do with the leftovers, the easier it becomes to control the level of greenhouse gas emissions a household is responsible for.
Food waste recycling can take many forms, from composting to biogas production. Composting improves soil quality and fertility, while anaerobic digestion processes produce renewable energy. So, it becomes a way to save resources, give back to the environment, and be more self-sustainable. And the good news is that most methods for recycling and upcycling food are easy to use and affordable for homeowners worldwide.
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