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Finally, there's a way for city-dwellers to compost the leftovers they're churning out and,.

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Thanks to the genius of an Israeli start-up company, the leftovers and food scraps people haphazardly throw into the trash can now be repurposed into fuel for cooking and fertilizer.

As the video above shares, the HomeBiogas unit can take organic waste and convert it into enough gas for 2-4 hours of cooking, as well as 5 – 8 liters of organic liquid fertilizer, every single day.

The company's aim is to help users convert waste into fertilizer and gas, and is especially focused on helping those in developed nations do so. According to the EPA,  food waste is now the largest solid waste contributor to landfills – and developed nations discard the most. As uneaten leftovers rot underneath the sun, they produce methane – a gas with 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. 

Eliminating food waste would have the same impact on greenhouse gas emissions as taking a quarter of all cars in America off the road, which is why a unit like this one is so important.

Credit: HomeBiogas

Credit: HomeBiogas

Credit: HomeBiogas

Credit: HomeBiogas

Every day, the unit can take in up to 6 liters of any food waste (including both meat and dairy, which are often not recommended for home composting) or up to 15 liters per day of animal manure (including pet waste, which is also not usually recommended). In turn, it can produce enough fuel to cook several meals per day, while also producing a rich organic fertilizer capable of boosting soil fertility and garden yields, reports TreeHugger