Turning food scraps to fuel

The AD machine used by the Petaling Jaya City Council canteen operator to generate methane gas for cooking.

CHEFS at the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) canteen are tossing banana peels, vegetable stems, food scraps and used tea bags into a mobile anaerobic digester (AD) to create pollution-free methane gas (CH4) that are used for cooking.

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