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I started composting but that got smelly and messy really quickly. It would shut down in winters and remained exposed for mosquitoes to breed, forcing the nature-lover to yearn for a better machine.Taking the noble idea ahead, he has developed E-Dedko, which he says can be put together even by a child. It takes about 30 seconds just to turn it. We also have a lot of trainer videos with it,” he adds.

It was a big plant, 6 feet in diameter and 6 feet in height,” recalls Udeshi. “It will be as common as that,” he concludes. “It is a DIY kit. Since then, the machine has been running well in my house. “They gave me instruction on how to build a biogas plant.Today, he supplies the plant from Gujarat to Goa. With the help of the institute, he built a biogas plant at home in 2012. Once it is full, we add a little water and just turn it so the waste gets crushed. After that, it becomes like a paste and you put it in the machine. I brought the parts and put them together. So, we decided to make it in a way that anybody can accommodate. They use the gas to cook from 5 am to 2 pm every day,” he smiles. Then I searched for other options like anaerobic digester — biogas,” he shares. It has big crushes, is completely automated and has control panels. Almost 30-40 per cent of cooking in Udeshi’s home is done on the biogas generated by Dedko.Dedko in use at homeHowever, the machine brought its own challenges. The gas generated is stored in a balloon like structure from where it is used for cooking. The structure that stores gas A smelly encounter to an over-flowing dumpster during a walk urged city-based mec]hanical engineer Dr Kabir Udeshi to do his bit for a healthy environment.In his quest to create a better environment, city resident invents a simple biogas plant that he aims to take to every household. The time investment is not more than five minutes a day and it can take upto 2 kg waste per day,” he explains.“There is a jar that is filled with organic waste. In the city, people from Thane, Mulund, Bandra, Santa Cruz, Dadar, Shiaji Park to Worli are cooking on the gas generated by Dedko. We have people calling us nationally and internationally asking for this machine. “The hospital generates 150 kg of waste every day.

I decided something has to be done as it is causing a lot of environmental damage,” says Udeshi who started his research trying to find best means of sustainable living.Just how we have toilets on the roads, Udeshi hopes in the times to come there will be waste converting machine everywhere. They even sent me parts that I couldn’t find.An engineer with a PhD from the University of Michigan, he initially manufactured industrial combustion equipment making him realise the hazardous affect of chemical fertilizers. We will launch in a month or so.Rhino Digester installed at Holy Family Hospital, Bandra“To start with I didn’t want to send any of my organic waste out of the house. That China plastic injection molding worked and there was no smell.Besides homes, a larger version of Dedko, called Rhino, has been installed at the Holy Family Hospital & Medical Research Center in Bandra. “I saw a dumpster with garbage over flowing and it felt wrong.

They say charity begins at home and that’s what happened here as well. At the same time, the machine also produces organic fertiliser. Costing `25,000 per plant, now it takes about 10-15 days to built 10 plants.”Soon, the word spread and he had people asking him to make one for them, urging him to manufacture the machine on a larger scale.“I started reading up on bio-technology, understood better what needs to be done, what bacteria is sensitive to, how to organise the structure well so it performs better,” he lists, adding, “I made a whole new design and shrunk it to the size of a washing machine and in this machine, temperature could be controlled. The 40-year-old started composting at home but didn’t succeed..Udeshi’s search landed him at Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in Pune. He began reading more about generating organic fuel and soon Udeshi had his plan ready to make the second attempt. Called Dedko –meaning frog in Gujarati, it took Udeshi about two months to build his first plant. The gas is compressed and stored in cylinders

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