India is lucky with its waste in many ways. For one we are still in early days of urban madness and consumerism. Two, most of the waste we generate is organic and non-toxic. And India is unlikely to be processing anything like the 200 tonnes of ‘organic’ waste that ConAgra aims to. [ A scary aside: will TDP encourage raising animals --which have a quick life cycle-- to produce oil which requires millions of years to form?] And three, we have not sunk too much investment in waste management technologies.

Many hare-brained solutions are about to be sold to local governments. In Chennai for example, an Australian firm has been dangling a ‘power from waste’ project which is nothing more than pelletising garbage and burning it to produce steam. This like most technologies is about disposal of waste, never mind the macro environmental costs. TDP seems to address issues of economics, recoveries, environmental benefits. A great new opportunity awaits India. Are there other routes to the same end? Researching the idea to Indianise the process or licensing it for induction awaits a far-sighted entrepreneur.
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Further reading:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/visualize0603.asp

http://www.ecologicinvestor.com/news/readfullnews.asp?NewsID=358,?