Municipal waste in Uganda is generally composed of wet carbon and nitrogen rich
\nmaterials that include: organic waste from households, agro industrial waste slaughter houses, food industry and agro waste: manure and straw. Over 70% of the municipal solid waste is vegetable matter which can be utilized for energy production.<\/p>\n
The residents of Kampala City produce more than 500 tons of garbage on a daily basis of which more than 73% is vegetative matter.<\/p>\n
Biogas<\/strong> Electricity generation<\/strong> Production of manure<\/strong> Municipal waste in Uganda is generally composed of wet carbon and nitrogen rich materials that include: organic waste from households, agro industrial waste slaughter houses, food industry and agro waste: manure and straw. Over 70% of the municipal solid waste is vegetable matter which can be utilized for energy production. The residents of Kampala City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-943","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Municipal waste in Uganda is generally composed of wet carbon and nitrogen rich materials that include: organic waste from households, agro industrial waste slaughter houses, food industry and agro waste: manure and straw. Over 70% of the municipal solid waste is vegetable matter which can be utilized for energy production. The residents of Kampala City…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe waste can be used to produce biogas which can be used for domestic fuel and for power generation.<\/p>\n
\nThe combustible waste matter and the biogas can be used for electricity generation.<\/p>\n
\nThe end product from biogas generation is rich in nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and humus and can be used to replace imported fertilizers and increase agricultural productivity on farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"