The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) has shown that managing wet waste effectively can be beneficial in more than one ways. The university’s electricity bill had dropped by a whopping ` 50,000 per year after a power generation unit, which uses wet waste, was installed on the campus.
“We initiated the idea to tackle power problems on the campus. The Agro Research Units where hundreds of plant and seed samples need to be preserved in controlled temperatures, need uninterrupted power supply. With the bio-gas unit, even during power cuts, the research units are not affected. At our campus we have 100-plus livestock and poultry birds where a large amount of wet waste is generated and we use it for power generation,” said Mr Narayan Gowda, Vice-Chancellor of University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS).
The UAS is now thinking of increasing the power generation capacity. To procure extra wet waste, the University has a unique idea. The power generation unit will now collect wet waste from the neighborhood around GKVK once the BBMP’s new law on waste segregation is implemented. “We will ask BBMP or neighbourhood associations to give us the wet waste as we can use it in our unit. The power generation capacity will be increased as we are setting up an additional unit in the coming days. The bio-gas units are more ideal for apartments and upcoming layouts where solution for wet waste can be provided at the source level,” Mr Gowda noted.