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India’s cities are facing a growing problem of mountains of garbage piling up. A big part of this waste is food scraps, vegetable peels, and other organic matter. Not only does this waste take up valuable space, but it also releases harmful gases like methane when it rots in landfills, harming the environment.

But what if we could turn this trash into treasure? This is what exactly a team of scientists at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad, has achieved with a ground-breaking technology called the Anaerobic Gas Lift Reactor (AGR)…read more on NOPR