Meet Ananya Nagendra, the 18-year-old Texas student who built an ant-based digester for landfill food waste; tests found her prototype was about 83% efficient
- Ananya Nagendra, the 18-year-old Texas student (Image Credit: Society For Science)Food waste is usually thought of as a problem that begins in the kitchen and ends in a garbage bin.
- But once that waste reaches a landfill, it can create another environmental problem: methane.
- Ananya Gulur Nagendra, an 18-year-old student from Plano, Texas, wondered whether one of nature’s smallest scavengers could help tackle some of that waste.
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- Ananya Nagendra, the 18-year-old Texas student (Image Credit: Society For Science)Food waste is usually thought of as a problem that begins in the kitchen and ends in a garbage bin.
- But once that waste reaches a landfill, it can create another environmental problem: methane.
- Ananya Gulur Nagendra, an 18-year-old student from Plano, Texas, wondered whether one of nature’s smallest scavengers could help tackle some of that waste.
Sources: Times of India