{"id":81962,"date":"2018-08-22T06:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/trash-is-gold-as-benin-community-turns-waste-into-biogas"},"modified":"2018-08-22T06:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:42:21","slug":"trash-is-gold-as-benin-community-turns-waste-into-biogas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/trash-is-gold-as-benin-community-turns-waste-into-biogas","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trash is gold\u2019 as Benin community turns waste into biogas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trash-is-gold-as-benin-community-turns-waste-into-biogas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garbage has never smelled so sweet for a small village in southern Benin since it opened a pilot waste treatment centre to turn household rubbish into gas\u2014and cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur trash has become gold. We no longer throw it into the bush. We use it to make money,\u201d beams Alphonse Ago, who lives next to the centre in Houegbo village.<\/p>\n<p>ReBin, a Swiss foundation for sustainable development, built the 1.3-hectare (3.2-acre) facility, which every week turns around six tonnes of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organic+waste\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic waste<\/a> into 200 cubic metres of biogas\u2014saving some 164 tonnes of wood from being used to make charcoal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-trash-gold-benin-biogas.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-trash-gold-benin-biogas.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garbage has never smelled so sweet for a small village in southern Benin since it opened a pilot waste treatment centre to turn household rubbish into gas\u2014and cash. \u201cOur trash has become gold. We no longer throw it into the bush. We use it to make money,\u201d beams Alphonse Ago, who lives next to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}