Turn garbage into clean energy

Nigeria - the largest city Nigeria is pursuing a project to improve the city's electricity supply by converting thousands of tons of garbage into green energy.

With a population of more than 20 million people, Lagos city emits 10,000 tons of garbage every day and most of it is organic waste. Garbage is flooded on Lagos streets, causing unpleasant odors and polluting the environment.

In addition, the city's electricity shortage has caused many people to depend on gasoline generators and accidentally, exhaust fumes from these machines make the atmosphere even more polluted.

Currently, Lagos City is trying to turn environmental problems into its advantages, by converting waste into methane to generate electricity.

The model of converting waste into electricity is piloted at Ikosi market and brought about initial success. Here, the fruit sellers will bring spoiled fruits into a storage chamber, then they are crushed into powder and put into a 20 cubic meter tank for fermentation and gas production, then pumped to a chamber. Other container above. Waste is then removed and used as crop fertilizer. And gas is filtered and put on generators, producing electricity.

Abimbola Jijoho-Ogun, director of the Lagos Municipal Waste Management Agency, said: 'We have a large amount of gas generated from waste, it can help improve the electricity shortage of residents in area, and potentially supporting the national grid '.

Lagos City's waste management program also incorporates a waste recycling process to clean the city.

The city government's recycling plan is also propagated on radio, to encourage people to collect garbage, bring them to the processing points for sale, and have received positive response and widely.