Cooking will not be difficult and bacteria in biogas plant produce high flames
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Bengaluru: If you wondered how to fully utilise kitchen waste, like vegetable peels and cooked food, then visit Cubbon Park on Sunday. The Horticulture Department, which holds various programmes as part of Traffic Free Sunday in the park, will introduce visitors to some novel ideas on using the kitchen waste. You can learn to make biogas at home and get hands-on experience in cooking using biogas. Mr N.S. Ramakanth of Solid Waste Management Round Table will hold a workshop and teach visitors how to generate biogas at home.
He said, “Anybody and everybody interested in cooking using biogas can use the unit. “About 1-5 kilo of wet waste is needed to cook for two people. It is very important to rightly segregate wastes and even that will be taught during the workshop.” He said that cooking using biogas is not difficult and the kitchen waste helps bacteria in biogas plant produce high flames. “The food is tasty and cooking does not consume too much time,” he said.
Around 20,000 people visit Cubbon Park on Sundays and they can see live models of biogas unit and learn methods of cooking on a biogas stove. Mr Ramakanth has installed a biogas unit in his house and for the last two years, the family of two is dependent on biogas for all their cooking purposes. “We save about 70 per cent LPG usage and even encourage our neighbours to segregate garbage rightly,” he said. The cost of a biogas unit is around Rs 25,000. Visitors can also learn composting and produce manure from their kitchen waste.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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