Insinkerator Promotional Video in Arabic with English Subtitles

Solar CITIES has been championing the cause of using Insinkerator food waste disposal units as the first line of defense against disease, pollution and climate change, giving every individual, home and family a chance to participate in environmental solutions rather than contribute to "the tragedy of the commons". Since much of our work is in Arabic speaking countries, we are posting this arabic version from Insinkerator to which we have added subtitles in English that we transcribed from the English version. This way it can be used in Arabic countries in seminars where there are also English speakers. We hope everybody will install an insinkerator and help end the era of landfills and pollution. We further hope that more people will do as we have done and connect the insinkerator to their own home or community scale biogas digestor.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Insinkerator
• biogas
• solid waste management
• Solar CITIES
• T.H. Culhane
• Emerson Electronics
• National Geographic Araby

[jclabart]

Also I hardly believe that poor people can afford this kind of aparatus. Lets show them a manual grinder dirrectly located above their biodigester, so they put just the right amount of water needed. Manual grinder means electricity free and muscle builder for a healthy active environmentalist :)

Keep on posting your own vids, They are such an inspiration for us.

[tculhane]

@jclabart What is innovative about the Insinkerator is the "cheese grater" style grinding wheel (the GrindShear Rings) and blunt throwing lugs, which increases safety and efficiency. Have no fear, we at Solar CITIES e.V. NGO are dedicated to finding ways to make solutions to waste, energy and water affordable, convenient and effective, and we welcome your feedback and suggestions.

[tculhane]

@jclabart If you could design or position such a manual grinder and post a video for us we would be grateful and we could then seek to replicate it. I like the idea very much, and we discussed such a thing in Nigeria but have not yet built it. We could use the help of people like you!

[jclabart]

I guess its good for cities buildings... other wise, it looks a huge waste of water. Water is a lot more precious than gold, and seeing it used again for waste disposal disturbes me. Thebiogas digester won't need that much water? don`t you think?

[tculhane]

@jclabart As I am an urban planner, and Solar CITIES e.V. has, as its mission, to improve urban conditions in developing countries, we start from there. But we also work in rural areas. You are correct that the biodigestor doesn't need much water, but neither does the Insinkerator. In fact, if you watch our latest Egypt Insinkerator for Biogas video you will see that the amount of water we used exactly matches what we needed to pour in the digestor. It was actually very little (less than 10 l)

[tculhane]

@jclabart Because I am sensitive to water usage, you should know that in my personal system I use greywater and other sources of waste water and that I recommend this to everyone. The greywater/dishwashing water actually contains fatty acids that are good for the bacteria in the biodigestor. Clean water is then only used for the final rinse of the sink, which would be done with or without an insinkerator. So have no worries there; in poor households where we work people are using washing water

[tculhane]

@jclabart Since we have a good relationship with Insinkerator we will be exploring ways to bring the price point down in developing countries; perhaps some kind of local assembly. We will also be speaking to their engineers about how we can develop models that do not use electricity -- hand grinding or bicycle powered or treadle motion to create the rotary grinding all all on the table as possibilities.

[tculhane]

@jclabart This is why the Insinkerator corporation has been so kind as to donate Insinkerator units for our projects in Nigeria, Egypt and Botswana, so that we can increase awareness of the value of food grinding and help convince the governments to reduce the import tariff and other barriers to creating volume demand that can bring prices down (note that a .45 HP unit in the US costs $89, but the same unit costs $350 in Egypt and Nigeria!) .

[tculhane]

@jclabart Thanks for the helpful comments jclabart. You are quite right that most poor people can't afford the Insinkerator, particularly in countries like Egypt and Nigeria where the vendors are marking up the price some 300%. We have talked to them and they don't really have good reasons for their absurd markups beyond shortsightedness and greed (although there is also the issue of 45% import tariffs that we must address).