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Eco Factor: Onion waste transformed into electricity, heat and cattle feed. Gills Onions, the nation’s largest processor of fresh onions, has built an anaerobic digester system at its Oxnard, California facility, which will help the company...

Eco Factor: Biogas-powered German town to become the first in the world. Lünen, a small town north of Dortmund, Germany, will soon become the first town in the world that will be powered by biogas generated from horse and cow manure. Apart from..

Eco Factor: 5,000 animals residing in Toronto zoo can power up the zoo and thousands of Toronto households. Zoo authorities around the world face one common problem – the waste generated by thousands of animals that has to be cleaned up for the..

Eco Factor: Concept skyscraper including a multitude of eco technologies. Living in skyscrapers is nothing new, but concepts now have started floating in which allow people to live and grow their own vegetables in the sky. Eco-minded architecture..

Not one individual or a group, but Sweden as a whole country has merged as a winner for making the best of bio-gas—a concept that has been blissfully ignored by many countries until now. It is estimated that 25% of Sweden’s energy consumption...

It is sad to know that we cannot sustain what nature has given us but are in a hot pursuit to design and develop structures that can render the same. The latest to join the list of green havens is the sustainable Habitat 2020 destined for China....

In the last general elections, the National Democratic Alliance of the country used ‘India Shining’ as the caption to try and win the general elections in 2004 and basically their campaign was flushed down the drain. Maybe ‘India Pooping’...

How could we have thought so wrongly of a banana peel that it always hits the garbage? Utility of anything seems to be in the eyes of the beholder. The banana peel hasn’t been an exception. What most of us looked at as waste was converted...

Researchers all over the world are trying to come out with alternate bio-fuels that can be tapped effectively and save the world from global warming. Human waste which goes down the drains is touted to be next alternate fuel that could power homes,...

Biogas plants are a great way to reduce environmental pollution. Why is that? Well, a biogas power plant is an anaerobic digestion system which is designed specially for the purpose of generating energy. You must be wondering when anaerobic...