Peter McIntyre

December 8, 2013

The business of turning faecal waste into energy

The BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in Bangladesh is  planning to convert faecal matter from pit latrines into commercially viable fertiliser, biogas and electricity. The aim is to complete the sanitation chain by making material from millions of pit latrines safe and economically productive. Babar Kabir, senior director of the BRAC WASH programme, says that there is a sound business case for investment in bio-energy units that could generate electricity on a large scale.