{"id":434262,"date":"2021-09-06T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T04:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434262"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:29:17","slug":"a-housing-complex-in-pune-is-using-leftover-food-to-light-its-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-housing-complex-in-pune-is-using-leftover-food-to-light-its-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"A housing complex in Pune is using leftover food to light its parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until four years ago, garbage disposal meant one thing to Savitri Bai Patil &#8211; stinking, putrefied heaps of trash spread around her neighbourhood in Pune, in western India.<\/p>\n<p>But now the streets of the Ashok Meadows housing complex where she lives are clear, with workers picking up garbage from residents&#8217; doorsteps each day and turning some of it into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, the complex has fed its food waste into a digester that converts it into biogas used to light the area&#8217;s streetlights, park, social club and gym. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clean energy from our rancid food leftovers, vegetable peels and other such throwaways? It is unbelievable how the concept of waste management has changed in the past few years,&#8221; Bai Patil, 62, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until four years ago, garbage disposal meant one thing to Savitri Bai Patil &#8211; stinking, putrefied heaps of trash spread around her neighbourhood in Pune, in western India. But now the streets of the Ashok Meadows housing complex where she lives are clear, with workers picking up garbage from residents&#8217; doorsteps each day and turning some of it into electricity. Since 2017, the complex has fed its food waste into a digester that converts it into biogas used to light the area&#8217;s streetlights, park, social club and gym. &#8220;Clean energy from our rancid food leftovers, vegetable peels and other such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}