FEASIBILITY STUDY OF ESTIMATING FOOD WASTE FROM URBAN AREA AND ITS USAGE FOR ENERGY GENERATION

Everyday more than 15 tones of organic waste is generated in the city of Vadodara. Along through the restaurants excluding agriculture waste, household waste and other dry and wet waste. Around 75-80% of the waste generated by these restaurants is organic waste. This waste is disposed to landfill on outskirts of the city. The closing of landfill as it reaches maximum capacity and more land is needed for waste disposal. This method of disposing waste is rather land polluting hold no economic or environmental benefits and obsolete with contemporary standards. As there is large of waste is organic and also it contains more or less amount of moisture. It can be utilized in biogas production facility. Biogas production from this waste basically enable us to create energy from the wastage which would otherwise pollute the eco system. The aim of this study is to estimate the amount of food waste generated by restaurants on daily basis and its utilization in energy generation. The economic analysis estimates the revenue from the waste collection and can cover the capital investment cost as per study.