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Digester turns Singaporeans' food waste into fertiliser in just 24 hours
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The interior of the food digester at Pandan Loop Industrial Estate, which has the capacity to produce about a tonne of fertiliser every month. The microbes used in the machine are said to work better on local food waste.
ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
Cheryl Teh
Take a tonne of rice, chicken, fish, noodles and other leftovers from the lunch of a few hundred people.
Put all of that into a machine and, within 24 hours, that mountain of scrap will be turned into fertiliser for gardens.
