HomeBiogas tackles one of humanity’s biggest challenges: providing clean cooking gas to more than 3 billion people who are still cooking on charcoal, exposed to life-threatening toxic air pollutants on a daily basis, by transforming food waste and manure into daily cooking gas and liquid fertilizer. Starting off as an alternative energy solution, HomeBiogas expanded the impact by addressing one of the biggest issues in developing countries – lack of access to sanitation solutions. 2.5 billion people worldwide don’t have access to basic sanitation, which increases the risk of water pollution, transmission of diseases, and the death of aquatic life.
Created in 2012 by Yair Teller and Oshik Efrati, this Israeli startup develops anaerobic biodigesters that are sold in kits that can easily be installed in gardens. Seven years of research were required to develop this ingenious system. HomeBiogas has now about 9,000 units in 106 countries.