Israeli company HomeBiogas will supply its organic waste treatments at refugee camps in Africa after winning a recent United Nations tender, the company announced.
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According to HomeBiogas, hundreds of refugee camps around the world generate great quantities of organic waste, which not only causes sanitary and environmental problems but is also expensive to dispose of. Its innovative systems treat waste sustainably and turn it into energy that will serve the refugees for cooking, heating, or farming. In addition, the systems are built for remote areas and work well in extreme conditions.
By converting organic waste into renewable energy on-site, HomeBiogas systems divert waste from landfills, the leading source of methane emissions worldwide. The 2021 UN Climate Change Report highlighted the need to control methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more harmful than carbon dioxide. Each HomeBiogas system saves over six tons of CO2 emissions per year.
The company's products provide innovative technological solutions to two of the world's biggest problems: the on-site treatment of organic waste and the local production of renewable energy, which are marketed in six continents and over 110 countries around the world.
As part of the project, HomeBiogas will work together with governments, aid agencies, and humanitarian organizations, such as the European Union, USAID, International Red Cross, the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry, The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, the World Wildlife Fund, and others. In addition, the company has distribution partnerships in several countries in Africa, including Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Kenya.
"We are proud that the UN selected HomeBiogas to take on this important project that will have an immense impact on the environment in the refugee camps," Oshik Efrati, Co-Founder and CEO of HomeBiogas said. "We seek to treat waste in a sustainable way and improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps around the world."
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