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Technology has become more and more advanced in this era.

Undoubtedly, it has been a tremendous impact to human being over these few years. It has improved their living standard by providing the society with more efficient and convenient ways of communication, daily applications, and business tools. In the meanwhile, green technology is increasingly common as the public interest shifts to include environmental consciousness. Nowadays, food waste is the number one of the most prevalent disposed materials, not only in Hong Kong, but also around the world. Correspondingly, landfills are going to be saturated soon. Although food waste is an inevitable waste for every family, it is a responsibility for everyone to contribute something. It is not surprisingly that the acidogenic fermentation of food waste can help reduce the amount of food waste and also generate electricity. According to [1], the Japanese method of fermenting the food waste is clearly a new manner to keep out of landfills and encourage food waste reduction. In Seoul, the waste collectors will collect the food waste for disposal twice a week and pass for composting [2]. It is a process of converting the organic matter in food waste into fertilizer; hence, less garbage is sent to the landfills. In fact, environmental hygiene would be an issue as the waste collectors come up not often. In addition, a food waste recycling company in Singapore, IUT Global, can turn the food waste collected to energy and bio-compost [3]. A high-temperature anaerobic bioreactor employs the selected bacteria to digest organic matter in food waste and yield methane gas, which could be developed to energy. The biological system can speed up the process by increasing the temperature. Among other biochemical parameters, cultivating the right combination of bacteria can digest various wastes effectively. Furthermore, the anaerobic process brings out gases with no smell as the system is airless, and the gas generators will extract the gases for combustion to produce power. However, the biggest hurdle is to acquire the food waste properly. The challenge lies in people segregating the waste products because people usually put all wastes into a rubbish bin. Moreover, it is hard to educate them about the proper waste sorting and be aware to contribute to the environment in a short time. You may wish to group the drawbacks at one point, e.g. at the end of this paragraph since it is a bit messy if it occurs in different positions of the paragraphs. A specialized rubbish bin is an effective means for everyone to make contributions to the environment. The proposed rubbish bin only collects food waste. It consists of a rubbish bin with a small radiator on top of it, a bacteria box inside the bin, an external gas charger and a socket with an indentation for the gas charger. It is a square prism with 30cm x 30cm x 40cm in dimension and made of aluminium oxide.

The bacteria box contains enzymes to nurture bacteria, which will digest organic matter in food waste and create biogases. During the fermentation, it will release heat as well, thus speeding up its own process. The gases yielded will be collected into the gas charger. When the device is filled up with gases, it will convert the biogases to electricity automatically. After that, the gas charger can be embedded into the socket and generate electricity. In addition, there is an indentation at the back of the rubbish bin, which is connected to the radiator. People can use this extraordinary feature in winter by inserting the gas charger. The radiator can help retain heat in room and also fasten the fermentation process as the material, aluminium oxide, is a heat conductor. Lastly, as the rubbish bin will keep undergoing fermentation whenever there are new food wastes being thrown, the leftover, fertilizer, has to be cleared once the bin is fully occupied. Currently, most of the organic food wastes end up in incineration plants or landfills. The proposed rubbish bin will contribute usefully to the environment and reduce the amount of food waste. First of all, the size of the bin is similar to the ordinary rubbish bin. It is feasible to have two rubbish bins in the family. With the help of the bin, it is more convenient for people to separate and store the food waste. Another benefit of using the proposed bin is that the devices are not stinky, neither the specialized rubbish bin nor the external gas charger. The cost of the whole set of devices is around $500 HKD. Furthermore, the by-product of the fermentation, fertilizer, could enrich the poor soil conditions. Fermentation of food waste is an environmentally-friendly waste disposal and a viable sustainable solution, because the process can extract the maximum amount of energy and recycle the product as bio-compost for organic growth mediums. Nevertheless, there is one limitation, which the proposed bin can only store food wastes, as fermentation of inorganic matters may produce harmful gases. These two paragraphs look fine. You may try to get some topic sentences for each paragraph (I assume the first one is about the procedures involved in the bin and the second one is about the advantages of promoting the bin at home, right?)

http://ventureneer.com/vblog/vokashi-fermenting-food-waste-eliminating-garbage http://foodwasterepublic.com/category/blog/2010/03/the-food-waste-recycling-dile mma/ http://www.innovationmagazine.com/innovation/volumes/v7n3/coverstory4.shtml

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