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India wins Green Award for turning Waste Food into Cooking Gas

The results for the Ashden Environmental Awards were announced on Thursday, June 21 and India was one of the winners.

India has won the award for a project on converting waste food into cooking gas.
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Quite an accomplishment for India, not only the award, but also the initiative and achievement behind the outstanding solutions for local sustainable energy that the country has put forward. It has not only provided a convenient method to recycle waste food, but has also shown an innovative way to produce cooking gas.

The Ashden Trust, one of the Sainsbury family charitable trusts, founded the Ashden Awards in 2001. Each year, they are awarded to worthy projects that show a promise of benefiting local communities and also are expanded to promote sustainable development.

The award consists of an international and a British division. Enterprise, food security, light and power, education and welfare are the five international categories.

Each winner received an award of 30,000 pounds in the five international categories of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.Another achievements for India was the Indian Company – Selco winning the Outstanding Achievement Award of 15,000 pounds for providing affordable solar power systems to the financially challenged people. The Indian Company – Biotech also won the award for Food Security.

The other award winners were China, Bangladesh, Laos and Tanzania. A stove design from China that uses crop waste was honored. Affordable solar power projects in Laos and Tanzania were also honored, as well as a Bangladeshi solar energy boat project.

The Beijing Shenzhou Daxu Bio-Energy Technology Company Ltd of China won the enterprise award. Sunlabob Renewable Energies Ltd of Laos won light and power award. Bangladesh’s Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha won the Education award and Tanzania’s Zara Solar Ltd won the Africa award.

Sarah Butler-Sloss, the head of the judging panel, said in a statement –

Our winners show how sustainable energy can improve health, education and livelihoods and at the same time reduce carbon emissions

According to her, if these technologies are amplified and duplicated on large scale, they would make a significant contribution towards the process of dealing with climate change and poverty.

Sarah Butler-Sloss feels that at this point it’s very important for the political bodies to concentrate on these findings and utilize them for good.

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Via : Reuters

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