Converting human excrements into energy tackles two major areas of concern: waste management and energy consumption. The production of biogas from human excrement is an environmentally friendly way to harness energy from a free resource. This process not only helps reduce the use of solid fuels such as trees, charcoal, crop waste, etc. which cause high levels of air pollution, it also helps combat the lack of proper sanitation facilities. With this one solution we relieve strain on energy consumption, decrease pollution, and provide a sustainable waste management solution.

There is a need to transform sanitation and provide clean energy in Uganda. Approximately two thirds of rural Ugandans use unimproved sanitation facilities, with an additional 7% practising open defecation (2017 data). Just over one in 10 health care facilities have basic sanitation facilities and only 31% of healthcare facilities have basic water supplies.

There is a clear need for an end-to-end solution like human waste to energy. Lack of adequate faecal sludge management negatively impacts human and environmental health. Waste to energy takes a free resource, which in its original state is problematic, and turns that into a source of energy through a process which itself is sanitising.