Waste management is not just an urban phenomenon that must be tackled by each city’s administration. It calls for individual initiatives too. That’s the message Pune-based Anand Karve, director of the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) wants to spread.
To enable this to happen, Karve has found a process. “A family of five persons would require a four feet wide plastic tank of 1,000 litres, which would need to be fed with kitchen waste of one kilogram every day to generate methane gas. A tank of this size would cost Rs 9,000. The gas generated through this method can be piped into the kitchen and there would be no further need to depend on LPG,” he explains.
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