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Hyderabad’s Bowenpally vegetable market, or the Dr BR Ambedkar Vegetable Market, is a stellar example in sustainability. It converts all the waste generated there to electricity and biogas. Watch this video to see how.

Pune-based BiofuelCircle, founded by Suhas Baxi and Ashwin Save in June 2020, is an online marketplace for biomass and associated commodities (biofuel, biofertilizers, biogas) that connects the rural farming community with industrial producers. Here's how they're reducing stubble burning and generating a clean energy source.

Jharkhand engineer Vishal Prasad Gupta has developed a bio-fuel manufactured from a species of microalgae native to the state's ponds, which is not only more eco-friendly than petrol and diesel, but also low cost.

“I wanted to help resolve several problems at one time—from waste management to air pollution—and this venture seemed to be an excellent start for this,” says Shiva Vig who buys waste oil from KFC, McDonald's and a thousand other restaurants in Delhi/NCR.

Able to serve a family for four years, the entire portable structure cost him less than Rs 10,000 and took a few hours to assemble. No wonder he is the talk of his neighbourhood now!

“Our organic waste is not a problem and is actually a solution to our energy problem. Social collaborations are very essential in such a scenario. For example, in our society, everyone segregates their own waste."

What if we told you this used cooking oil (UCO) from your local samosawala could be turned into eco-friendly fuel?

The 72-seater aircraft was Spicejet’s Bombardier Q400 (VT-SUI) and was flagged off by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat from Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport.

Besides cutting energy imports and carbon emissions, this step can also double farmer incomes by 2022!

In Uttarakhand, a new biofuel conversion plant piloted in Kashipur can convert all kinds of agricultural waste into bioethanol. This unique technology has many benefits over other biofuel plants.