Food Waste Being Made More Efficient in Ghana
Das Biogas, a start-up comprised of young, spirited and creative team of entrepreneurs, is providing a waste-to-wealth solution for sorting and treating biodegradable household kitchen waste in Ghana. . In a nation where waste of every kind is eagerly disposed of legitimately or illegitimately, Das Biogas are designing an innovative mechanism of responsibly disposing of organic kitchen waste right from your kitchen sink – and generating cooking gas in the process. Responding to the need for a global circular economy, the start-up is creating wealth, even environmental wealth, from organic kitchen waste which would have ordinarily ended up on landfill sites, emitting GHGs and posing a significant health risk in the process. Further, the liquid fertilizer residue generated from the system after waste treatment can also be used to water the garden areas or even farmlands.
Enoch Boadu, the Founder of Das Biogas, is a 35 year old Mechanical Engineer with an tremendous passion and interest in contributing to the Sustainable Development Gthrough innovation to waste management in Ghana. Enoch’s venture is one of 11 selected companies in the first cohort of entrepreneurs admitted into the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) in May 2017. Enoch and his team have been experimenting with different versions of the portable biogas plant and look forward to perfecting the design for a seamless integration into many kitchens in Ghana.
The use of the portable biogas plant encourages the culture of waste segregation in Ghana and potentially reduces the financial and social costs of waste disposal. The biogas produced from the plan potentially replaces the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and wood fuel for cooking and by extension deforestation in many parts of the country.
Through the support provided at the GCIC, Enoch is gaining valuable insights in the areas of technology and product development, entrepreneurship and venture acceleration, as well as market access interventions to sustainably scale his business. In his own words, Enoch says, “He looks forward to perfecting the portable biogas plant and making it a visible feature of every kitchen in Ghana.”