Recycling and Sustainability: The Bio Gas Experiment

October 31st 

As usual in our service we start off by being separated 4 groups to do different areas in our school. However today was different, we were separated into groups but one group went to work on the Bio gas plant collecting the canteen food waste and putting that waste into the bio gas, while the others did the normal recycling rounds.

I was with the group that are doing the normal recycling grounds. I was with the group that are doing the S block. We did the normal collection and then moved placed all the paper we collected to the recycling shed. Then the groups that were doing the normal recycling rounds were told to go to the bio gas plant. We were told that today was going to be the Bio gas’s first experimental day, this is to test the effectiveness of the Bio gas, because we are planning to make this become the canteen’s main source of gas. So the way we tested this was by cooking something simple, so we decided to use popcorn. So we made the popcorn by preheating the pot, then we started adding the popcorn kernels. After a few minutes we opened pot that released the aroma of perfectly cooked popcorn. We then salted the popcorn, and had a taste test, it turns out that the popcorns was delicious. We then gave a portion of the popcorn to our partnered service group, the Reef Keepers who work on more on the ocean’s problems than the land’s problems.

We then made another portion of the popcorn using the bio gas, and ate that portion of popcorn. Overall this proves that the Bio gas is effective enough to become the canteens main source of gas. Due to this we will soon be planning on how we can make the Bio gas the canteen’s main source of gas.