When you take out the trash or flush the toilet - do you ever stop
to think about the vast amounts of energy you’re actually throwing
away? Probably not - and that’s okay! Here to think about those scores
of precious potential energy for us is green-as-can-be waste treatment
company GENeco, and its ground-breaking BioBus. That’s right, the BioBus runs on trash and sewage. Already
more than just a pipe dream, the first BioBus is currently active in
the United Kingdom, shuttling passengers back and forth every day from
Bristol Airport.
So how does it work? First, a GENeco waste disposal
plant treats both food waste and sewage, using a natural process which
mimics the human digestive system. The result is biomethane - the
purified gas which fuels the BioBus, along with 8,300 UK homes every
day. On a full tank of gas, the bus can travel 200 miles - not bad for
what is essentially broken down unwanted food and sewage!
As one of GENeco’s founders says in this video showing the BioBus in action, “not everything we flush goes to waste.”
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