utilization of kitchen waste-to-energy: a conceptual note

India’s rapid economic growth and change in lifestyle have increased the level of municipal solid waste (msw) generation in the country. the metropolitan cities in india are contributing a major portion (in lakhs metric tons per day) of msw. it is only due to the lack of the availability of poor infrastructure to handle msw in the country. also the people’s ignorance towards handling this waste is also a big challenge to handle this problem. the implementations of low-cost and user-friendly methods are the primary requirements to handle this kind of situation. it can be easily predicted that kitchen waste (kw) is contributing a major portion in msw, and its ignorance towards disposing off is increasing the environmental pollution day-by-day. it is the motivation of the present work, and a comprehensive review of kw generation in india is done. a study based on prefeasibility to handle kw is also done, and based on that, a feasible solution is provided to handle kw on waste to energy for sustainable new business investment opportunities in the present work. the proposed plan will not only reduce the level of msw in the country but will also create a lot of opportunities for employment in the country for a future generation. the present work concludes that installation of this kind of pilot project in the metropolitan cities is the present need for the development of the recycling industry sector using kw as a raw material in india.