Nation Building
Methane Emission Mitigation Program
We are plagued by significant amount of agro-waste generated from food & cash crops abundantly grown on India’s most fertile agricultural lands. Most of these agro-waste remain unidentified and undiagnosed in terms of their potential as significant Methane emitters; and are dumped as landfill without any proper treatment whatsoever. Organic wastes, which do not have any viable commercial utilization and hence used as landfill, are categorized as environmentally hazardous – if they emit more greenhouse gases (GHG) than their own unit mass. Apart from emitting GHG, as indicated above, when left as untreated landfill material; this light-weight Coir Pith causes other hazards as well:
- Gets blown away by wind, causing air pollution.
- Gets washed away by water, negatively affecting underwater ecosystems.
- Gets introduced, at varying degrees of its natural decomposition, into the soil system resulting in marked deterioration in the productivity of such soils.
On the other hand, Methane is the most dreaded GHG because:
- It has a 20 year Global Warming Potential (GWP) of 81 and an Atmospheric Lifetime of 12 years.
- It disintegrates in the atmosphere, thereby releasing CO2 & Water Vapour (both being potent GHGs).
- It is a precursor of tropospheric Ozone (hazardous to all terrestrial life forms).
SafeU has developed validated models to convert this hazardous waste to wealth (most efficient organic compost) for our primary sector! Undoubtedly, these are some of the best models for Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources (which are otherwise hazardous) to yield wealth (dhan) for our farmers!
Coir Pith is a prime example of such an organic waste, emitting up to 6.010 mtCO2e of GHG (Primarily Methane) per ton of its own weight!