Green initiative to cut rubbish at landfills and reduce carbon footprint

Cooking gas alternative: MBPJ’s canteen operator Zamri Taib, 45, cooking using biogas at the council’s canteen.

The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) canteen operator is tossing fruit peels, vegetable stems, food scraps and used tea bags into a mobile anaerobic digester (AD) to create pollution-free methane gas (CH4). The gas is used to cook for the lunch crowd daily.

Already on its third week, the new innovative approach by the council to turn biodegradable waste into cooking gas, gives hope that food waste may have a better future than rotting at landfills and producing harmful greenhouse gases.