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Communities and households can locate the nearest community biogas digester accepting organic waste — with directions and contact details.
Mubende District Pilot · Funded by IUEA
Turn organic waste into clean cooking gas — and save Uganda's trees.
Starting in Mubende District, BioTrack connects rural schools and communities with nearby biogas digesters. Schools cook with gas instead of firewood. Communities turn waste into energy. Forests stay standing.
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Trees saved this year
The problem
Schools cook with firewood. Forests pay the price.
Every plate of porridge served in a rural school often costs a piece of forest. Meanwhile, the same schools throw away tonnes of organic waste that could fuel a clean stove instead.
A community biogas digester — fed with food scraps, banana peels and animal waste.
~90,000 ha
Forest lost in Uganda every year — much of it for firewood and charcoal.
94%
Of rural Ugandan households still cook with wood or charcoal every day.
1,200+ meals
A typical rural school cooks per day — burning bundles of firewood each week.
BioTrack closes the loop — school waste becomes school fuel.
No firewood collected. No tree cut. No waste wasted.
The platform
One simple app. Two sides of the loop.
BioTrack matches schools that produce organic waste with communities that run biogas digesters — so nothing gets wasted and no tree gets cut.
School waste alerts
Schools post real-time alerts when they have surplus organic waste to give away — or when they need more feedstock for their digester.
Built for rural schools
Simple, mobile-first dashboards designed for school cooks, headteachers and community digester operators in low-bandwidth areas.
Track waste-to-gas impact
Every kilogram of waste, every cubic metre of biogas, every tree saved — logged and reported back to schools, donors and IUEA researchers.
How BioTrack works
From kitchen waste to cooking flame — in four steps.
- Step 1
School posts an alert
A school logs its surplus organic waste — or its need for more — through the BioTrack app.
- Step 2
Nearby digesters are matched
BioTrack maps the closest community digesters and connects them with the school in real time.
- Step 3
Waste is collected & fed
Community operators collect the waste and feed the digester — turning peels and scraps into biogas.
- Step 4
Schools cook with clean gas
Biogas powers school kitchens. No firewood. No smoke. No tree cut for tomorrow's lunch.
Impact dashboard
Waste in. Biogas out. Trees standing.
Live numbers from the BioTrack school and digester network, led by the Mubende District pilot.
Organic waste diverted by district
Tonnes, year to date
What's in the digesters
Feedstock mix
Trees saved over time
Estimated trees not cut for firewood thanks to BioTrack-powered school kitchens
Funded by
International University of East Africa
BioTrack is proudly funded and supported by IUEA — championing applied research, sustainability, and community-led innovation across East Africa.
Join BioTrack
A community working together.
BioTrack is built around people. Schools, households and community supporters share waste, share gas, and earn BioTokens for every contribution — redeemable for clean biogas.
I'm a school
Register your school to log organic waste, request more feedstock, or get connected to a nearby biogas digester for clean cooking.
Register your schoolI am a Community Supporter
Join a growing community contributing organic waste to nearby digesters. Earn BioTokens for every contribution — redeemable for clean biogas.
Become a supporterEarn BioTokens. Every kilogram of organic waste you contribute earns tokens that can be converted into biogas for cooking — turning waste into a real, tradable community asset.