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[Via the delicious Wasted Food blog:]

Using excreta in the digesters helps manage human waste at source and avoids ground water contamination. BIOTECH’S use of latrines is considered to be a major breakthrough in combating water and air-pollution. Mrs Anna Benedict from Kumbalangi island panchayat, comments: “Before we had the plant, all the waste went into the sea. Now we have a latrine and biogas plant, the waste is treated properly.”

BIOTECH is a company that sets up waste digesters in Kerala. A small digester for a home can produce two hours’ worth of gas a day. The effluent is suitable for fertilizer. Larger plants use waste from the municipal fish market.

Makes me wonder what the local municpal fish markets do with their waste.

Treehugger points to a portable biomass generator as well.

This is extremely disgusting. I warn you: frog heads. But, as one commenter says, “Studying garbage is studying its culture.” (You get the idea. I don’t suggest you try to diagram that sentence.)