Eco-friendly food waste recycling with “stomach” machine at DCL

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Full Article here: See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos  The Dubai Central Lab is promoting eco-friendly recycling of food waste by using a machine that can ‘digest food like human stomach’ and turn it into grey water.

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00:00The food and environment section is a section under the Dubai Central Laboratory umbrella.

00:06We have four main units.

00:08We have sample management unit, microbiology food unit, and chemistry food unit, and environment

00:14unit.

00:15All the units, we are receiving all food and environment samples.

00:21Our main target is to handle all the food and test it and to check it is with the regulation

00:29and if it is fit or unfit for the human.

00:32I would like to introduce our sustainability instrument machines.

00:37It is a recycling machine for food.

00:40The starting of the idea started was because we are working with dealing with the food.

00:45So usually in the daily base, we are receiving 200 samples per day.

00:49So imagine at the end of the month, we have to deal with 4,000 samples.

00:54Usually the sample, we have the process for the hygiene samples or unsatisfactory sample.

01:00But usually the normal samples, we throw it in the general waste.

01:04So we think that's according to our sheikh, Mohammed bin Rashid, that's the vision for

01:102021.

01:11So we have to reach the sustainability.

01:15So we are thinking about using the recycling machine.

01:18When we are searching for the best machine that's covering our idea, we found two machines.

01:26One that's recycling the foods and in the end, it will be fertilizing.

01:32And another, our machine, the end, it will be water.

01:36So we thought that water is much suitable and we can deal with it.

01:39So we have a completed circle of recycling machines.

01:44So our idea of the recycling machine, it is like a stomach, the idea of the stomach.

01:48So whatever we're eating, it is like what happened in the stomach, it is happening in

01:51the instrument.

01:52There is enzymes and the machines.

01:56So when we put the foods, the same idea it happen.

01:59Later when you come, you can find the suitable food that we can deal with it and the food

02:05that was not supposed to adding in the machines.

02:08There is bacteria.

02:09The bacteria is doing all the recycling issue.

02:14So it is like, you know, that there is a bacteria inside our body.

02:17So here also, bacteria inside this machine.

02:21This bacteria can live for one year, but of course, you have 10 days.

02:26If you didn't feed them, they will die, like stomach.

02:29For us, three days, we will die, but here, 10 days.

02:32So it is the same idea.

02:33We use a little amount of water to work with it and the machine use a little electricity.

02:41So in everywhere, it is completing sustainability machine.

02:45The idea of the machine that whatever your stomach can deal, the machine can deal it.

02:50For example, the machine cannot deal with the high oil sample.

02:56So we have to balance it.

02:57For example, today I receive a lot of dairy product, a lot of cheese sample, a lot of

03:01oil sample, so I cannot throw it direct to the machine.

03:05I have to balance it.

03:06For example, today I will add cheese because it is high fat, but I have to wait two days

03:11until I have to put the next cheese sample.

03:15So the most sample we have to add, it is like a high fiber sample.

03:19So it is like a stomach.

03:20You remember when they said if you want more digestible process, you have to eat fibers more?

03:25It is the same for this machine.

03:27So the idea is very easy.

03:28We can explain to the labor, if you want to add it, please think like your stomach.

03:33What your stomach can deal with, you can add it to this machine.

03:36First step, what we are doing, we want to make sure that the water is okay to go to

03:40the drainage.

03:41So I take some water and I give it to the environment lab and tell them, please analyze

03:47this water and just give me the report.

03:49I will send it to the concerned people in environment department to analyze the water,

03:54if it is suitable to go to the planet in the end.

03:57Then the test is coming.

03:58I send it to the environment department telling that, please just analyze the report.

04:04Give me your feedback if the water is fine.

04:08We do it each month.

04:09At the end of each month, we take some water and we test it and we have a report and we

04:13send it to them to evaluate it.

04:15Alhamdulillah, until now, all the reports were within the range.

04:20That means that when the water goes to the drainage, you know, at the end of all the

04:24process as concerned department doing with the drainage water, in the end it will end

04:30up to the planet in Dubai.

04:33But next step, inshallah, I'm working with the company that we want the water to be a

04:38completed cycle.

04:39So we have two options.

04:41They said that we can, instead of using the water, normal water, the water coming from

04:45the machine, it will circulate again and coming out and into the machine.

04:49This is the first thing.

04:51The second thing they said that we can buy a filter.

04:55This filter can filter the water with the, you know, that's the water that you should

05:01be recycling and put it in the plant.

05:03And we can also use it direct to the plant.

05:06So in the future, 2020, inshallah, this is the next step.

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