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Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

A weekly programme looking at common challenges around the world and the creative ways people are trying to tackle them.

Presenter Myra Anubi speaks to reporters, experts and innovators to investigate how effective different solutions are, share their successes and inspire listeners with what is possible.

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People Fixing The World: Turning waste into power

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Turning waste into power

31/01/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - People Fixing The World, Turning waste into power

How old food and hot computers are being used to provide new sources of energy

How old food and hot computers are being used to provide new sources of energy.

Food waste from hotels and the heat from computers are being used to provide new sources of energy.
 
In the fight against climate change, it is of vital importance to find new ways of making our energy go further.
 
We visit Goa in India, to hear how food waste digesters - that turn waste into gas for cooking – are springing up everywhere. 
 
And in server centres around the world, we explore how the heat generated by running the internet is being re-used by local neighbourhoods.

Presenter: Myra Anubi
Reporters: Chhavi Sachdev and Craig Langran
Producer: Claire Bates
Series Producer: Tom Colls
Sound Mix: Annie Gardiner 
Editor: Penny Murphy

Email: peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.uk
Image: Richard Dias from Flycatcher Technologies

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