Dung: That’s Good For The Planet

Organic waste management is a trouble in many areas of rural Indonesia. You would not think a flock of pooping cattle would be a colossal trouble, but it is.

A lot of farmers allowance waste from livestock and crops on their farms, or throw the waste into rivers, causing environmental problems such as eutrophication. Methane emissions contribute to the smell and pollution from animal babble, it has been found to be more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet.
Yayasan Rumah Energi is an organisation based in Indonesia that is hoping to change how organic waste in rural communities is managed. Biogas Rumah (BIRU), one of their programmes is encouraging the use of biogas in homes or by small businesses. RUMAH was established in 2009 to benefit the use of biogas as a sustainable energy source to rural households. RUMAH has helped establish 22,446 digester units in 10 Indonesian provinces as of 2017.

Biogas is a gas produced when organic waste undergoes anaerobic digestion -- biodegradable material breaking down in the absence of oxygen. Gas is then piped into homes for cooking or for lighting gas lamps. The fermented remains become bio-slurry, a cost-free, all-purpose fertiliser.
This process takes place in a biogas digester. Local NGOs are engaged by BIRU to help rural communities build the digesters, ranging in size and price.
Indonesia has great potential of biogas because of large numbers of cattle quantity. A huge bulk of cows, pigs, fowls and other agricultural waste is available,” Wilhemus Leang said a provincial coordinator for Yayasan Rumah Energi.
Theresia Rukyatun runs a small milk-producing business in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Digester when she built her cattle farm she invested in a biogas. The goal is to be modest and energy efficient,” she said.
After using Biogas, she does not need to pay for LPG for production. The money she recovers converts into more benefits for her member. “We can increase their salary, and we can invest more in our storage,” she said. Many farmers and small-business owners are using biogas throughout Indonesia, in different ways. These include tofu and Tempe producers, goat farmers, fish farmers and many more.
"Farmers have a lot of resources available to them; all the farmers need to do is manage their farming waste.” BIRU hopes that more farmers and business owners will start becoming more sustainable in their practices.
RUMAh engage with the public to discuss about renewable energy because it is endless, biogas will last beside the availability of organic waste on earth.

By: Abhishek Singh
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