Coming up with a way to handle 12 tons of waste with simple equipment that can be purchased regionally might not seem like a huge challenge — unless the region in question is a small village on the slopes of Mount Everest.
Mount Everest has enamored climbers as the pinnacle of achievement for decades, and today the amount of human waste dumped annually has reached an all-time high.
Garry Porter and Dan Mazur started the Mount Everest Biogas Project to develop a solar-powered, modular biogas digester to deal with the massive amount of human waste collecting on the mountainside, generated
