Nigerians tasked on green technology to achieve SDGs

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Guardianng Sept. 14, 2021 1:14 a.m.

Nigerians tasked on green technology to achieve SDGs

Ezemonye told the students that gas was the end product of the AD process, which he said, had been proven to be pure and devoid of harmful substances, adding that the waste (digestate) of the AD process was used as organic fertiliser, which is better than inorganic fertiliser.

Also, a Chemical Engineer, Dr.

Andrew Amenaghawon, in his presentation titled: Waste Management In The Modern Era: Shifting Our Thinking Paradigms, exposed participants to different modern waste management techniques, which developed countries adopted to recover wastes and avoid practices capable of impacting the environment negatively.

One of resource persons, Dr.

Ifeyinwa Obuekwe, who spoke on Opportunities And Challenges For Anaerobic Digestion In Africa: Feedstock And Digestate Perspectives, explained the AD process was simply the breakdown of organic materials by microorganisms without the presence of oxygen to produce biogas (source of energy) and digestate (inorganic fertiliser)..

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