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We have a Solution to India's Food waste

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Now the food waste in India is an serious issue. Our garbage bins, landfills and street prove it. Almost 40 % of food consumes is actually wasting. Why is food wastage a problem? 25% of fresh water used to produce food is ultimately wasted, even as millions of people still don’t have access to drinking water. When you calculate the figures in cubic kilometers, this is a bit more than an average river. Even though the world produces enough food to feed twice the world’s present population, food wastage is ironically behind the billions of people who are malnourished. The number of hungry people in India has increased by 65 million more than the population of France. According to a survey by Bhook (an organization working towards reducing hunger) in 2013, 20 crore Indians sleep hungry on any given night. About 7 million children died in 2012 because of hunger/malnutrition. Acres of land are deforested to grow food. Approximately 45% of India’s land is degraded primarily du...

Food Waste Recycling

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Recycling food waste is one of the increasing trends today. Usually, the food waste along with other wastes are dumped to landfills which will increase environmental pollution such as smoke, odour and seepage from that landfills. Food wastes can be recycled to animal feed or composted for soil enrichment. Some kind of wastes can be converted to fuel also. Now the efforts of disposing of wastes by homeoweners themselves increasingly continue. But it's not a viable option for every household, those who have no space or resources to compost or dispose of their own wastes. One of the best option to have a company that can do the recycle process for them. Solwearth Ecotech is one of the emerging company which offers the best efficient organic waste management machines. Businesses like hotels, restaurants, schools, halls etc can use their machines to compost their own organic waste in a minimal space and time. Food wastes can be composted by themselves in an effortless way and t...