Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. But once discarded, its also the source of 8-10% of greenhouse gas emissions of our earth. According to the latest UNEP (United Nations Environment Program ) food waste index report, the true scale of food waste and the opportunities related to it, is largely untapped and under-exploited.
In US restaurants alone, about 33 billion pounds of food is wasted each year. If these discarded food is collected in an inhouse reservoir, it could be reused to power up via biogas and the produce manure to grow in-house vegetables.
The Dregs Reloaded project involves setting up two external reservoirs/tanks outside a restaurant/home/community
which is used to collect organic food waste. The tank includes a pulverizing and churning motor which is activated at regular intervals to accelerate the decomposing process. It also monitors and collects data related to temperature, biogas, food level etc.,
which could be analyzed making use of cloud storage and computing. The biogas generated from the tank could be used for cooking or heating. The decomposed food waste can be collected and used as fertilizer. With the help of dual reservoirs, when one gets filled and being decomposed, the other one
can be opened up/enabled for the next collection of food waste.
Most people favor steps to reduce climate impact related to human behavior. Projects like Dregs Reloaded provide a way for every human being to be part of the problem solving method for a sustainable green earth.

Project Proposal

1. High-level project introduction and performance expectation

2. Block Diagram

3. Expected sustainability results, projected resource savings