MMC Turns Hotel Food Waste into Cooking Gas for Indiramma Canteen

Food waste generated by hotels around the Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation (MMC) headquarters is being converted into cooking gas for the Indiramma canteen on its premises, giving discarded food a productive use.

The corporation has installed a biogas plant with a capacity to process 125 kg of food waste daily. The gas generated is supplied to the canteen operated by women's self-help groups, while the liquid fertiliser produced is used for landscaping and



horticulture.

The facility can generate biogas equivalent to six commercial LPG cylinders a month and three kilolitres of liquid organic fertiliser. It is also expected to reduce carbon emissions by around 4.5 tonnes monthly.

MMC Commissioner T. Vinay Krishna Reddy and CSIR-IICT director Srinivas Reddy inaugurated the facility on Thursday. Established in collaboration with KHAR Energy Optimizers, the plant uses patented AGR technology developed by CSIR-IICT.