How Ghana is producing energy out of pure waste

In Ghana, at the Waste2Energy facility, Favour gets her hands dirty to turn waste into clean energy.

00:00 — Ghana's 12,000-ton daily waste problem explained
00:48 — Why open burning is dangerous and widespread in Ghana
01:10 — Inside the waste sorting facility: organics versus plastics
02:46 — How plastic waste becomes fuel oil through pyrolysis
03:09 — Turning food waste into biogas: the shredding and feeding process
04:29 — What is anaerobic digestion and how does it differ from composting?
07:14 — Inside the digester: measuring methane quality and gas output
08:53 — Can this model be scaled across Ghana and Africa?
10:51 — Testing the electricity: charging a phone with waste-generated power

Produced with the support of Germany's Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

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