Sugar cane is really amazing food, put it in the mouth, chew it a few times, and spit it into the trash. Next, this bagasse is forgotten forever.
But in India, bagasse is considered a treasure! Feeding countless Indians.
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Headache bagasse
In India before 2012, bagasse was actually a headache for the local government.
As we all know, the country of origin of sugar cane is India, and the Indian people's sweet craving is brought from the blood. Therefore, India grows a large amount of sugarcane, and in 2022 alone, it produced 509 million tons of sugarcane, becoming the second largest producer of sugarcane in the world, and of course, the resulting bagasse is also a staggering amount.
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So where did so much bagasse go?
In fact, for quite some time, the local government in India had no clue about this. Therefore, after the sugar mill pressed the sugar cane, tens of thousands of sugarcane were piled up and became a garbage mountain.
The garbage is wet and has sugar, and the maximum temperature in India can reach 50 degrees. Under such conditions, these garbage are surrounded by mosquitoes and flies, breeding a lot of bacteria, and the smell emitted is even more disgusting.
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This is not okay, it still has to be dealt with. India's "dirty and messy" image cannot be left to develop. As a result, they really came up with a "good" solution - thermal power generation. Obtaining electricity by burning bagasse as fuel is a great way for a developing country like India!
However, this is only a last resort on the premise of treating bagasse as garbage.
In fact, the thermal power generation of sugar cane is not cost-effective. Because bagasse contains a certain amount of water, combustion produces less than a quarter of the electricity of coal. Moreover, the burning of bagasse can also pollute the environment.
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Turn waste into treasure
At that time, a young man in India saw the drawbacks of bagasse thermal power generation. He is Wigander, a graduate of the Polytechnic, who sees the potential to turn waste into treasure in bagasse.
Bagasse is rich in plant fibers, with the idea of papermaking, the bagasse is beaten into powder, and then through a series of steps such as filtration, soaking, tableware machine molding, etc., to make environmentally friendly tableware that conforms to the aesthetics of Indians.
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Just do it, Wiegand immediately contacted the sugar factory, and in the surprised eyes of everyone, purchased a large amount of bagasse.
However, the road to riches is not easy, not to mention the more expensive eco-friendly tableware. So, eco-friendly tableware is selling poorly at first! However, Wiggander not only has academic knowledge, but also business acumen. Since the price of environmental protection is too high, reposition the consumer group. The rich family is rich and attaches importance to health, and after increasing targeted publicity and promotion, he quickly reaped the first pot of gold in his life.
Why not make money and be environmentally friendly?
Next, he expanded the scale of production, and in just two years, he became bigger and stronger in the environmentally friendly tableware industry and attracted capital to join. According to relevant statistics, in 2022, India's bagasse industry solved the employment problem of 4.5 million Indians and created a value of Rs 340,000 crore. literally fed tens of thousands of Indians.
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Has China followed suit?
Since bagasse makes so much money as environmentally friendly tableware, does China do it?
In fact, China has done it, but not all of it!
India produces about 405 million tonnes of sugarcane, compared to 109 million tonnes of Chinese mainland, according to the 2022 FAO Statistics database. Therefore, China does not produce as much bagasse as India. Naturally, good slag should be used on the blade!
For environmentally friendly tableware, there are actually more alternative plant fibers, such as straw and the like.
Bagasse is acidic, and rich in cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, etc., in the efforts of mainland researchers, after a specific environment, special technology, bagasse can become an excellent raw material for "black gold" graphene.
Good graphene, a gram can even be sold for thousands of yuan, which is more valuable than making environmentally friendly tableware!
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