Smart Food Waste
Smart Food WasteBuilt for kitchens
Sited beside the kitchen it serves. Cooked and raw food, fruit and vegetable trimmings, coffee grounds and bakery waste go in at the end of service and never reach a bin room.
Green Waste XL, installed on site. Organic and green waste is processed where it falls, without transport, transfer stations or landfill.
Request a pilotCompostEgo processes organic and green waste where it is produced, and reports every condition inside the chamber to the people accountable for it.
The machine
Scroll to assemble it, then look inside — through shredding, aeration and six weeks of measured composting, to the drawer.
Shredder, aeration duct, insulated chamber, carbon filter, controller and a six-probe sensor rail.
Reinforced composite panels on a steel frame, 120–150 kg empty. Sited outdoors without a shelter.
Leaves, grass, twigs, garden trimmings and food waste. Up to 150 kg per cycle through a removable lid.
Coarse rotors break down branches. Fine rotors below take everything to roughly 10 mm, which is what makes the rest of the cycle fast enough to be useful.
A variable-speed fan feeds a perforated duct beneath the material, holding oxygen near 18 per cent. Spent air leaves through an activated carbon canister.
Temperature, humidity, oxygen, pH, moisture and ammonia. The bed holds in the fifties for weeks and loses about two thirds of its mass.
Nutrient-rich material ready for landscaping, parks, nurseries and agriculture.
The machine is half of it.
The data is the other half.
Configurations
What goes in decides the machine. The chamber, the sensor array and the control system are shared across all three — the shredder, the airflow and the materials around them are not.
Sited beside the kitchen it serves. Cooked and raw food, fruit and vegetable trimmings, coffee grounds and bakery waste go in at the end of service and never reach a bin room.
Palm fronds, branches, grass and hedge trimmings. Dual-stage steel rotors take woody material down to roughly 10 mm, and high airflow carries a dry, fibrous bed through the cycle.
Galley and mess waste treated on board rather than stored or discharged. Marine-grade steel body, sealed input hopper, leachate tray and a thermally controlled chamber for any climate.
Where it goes
Engineering
The first working unit was designed and built at Bahrain Polytechnic — a printed enclosure, two geared drives, a sensor array and an ESP32 holding it together. It was built to prove the cycle closes: that material can be reduced, aerated, measured and weighed inside one sealed volume, and that the readings can leave the box.
Six measured channels, two driven axes, one fan, and a battery that lets the unit run detached from mains.
Every sensor lands on a named pin. This is the diagram the build above was wired from — the components you just looked at, and the lines between them.
What went into it
Recognition
Two ministries, a cultural bureau, an engineering faculty and a national port have looked at this project and taken it further.
Receiving the 1st Place Award for Best Innovative Project at Engineering Expo 2026, recognising our innovation and commitment to sustainability. Award ceremony, Engineering Expo 2026, Kingdom of Bahrain — first place among more than 300 participating engineering projects.
1st place · Best Innovative ProjectThe Saudi Cultural Attaché in the Kingdom of Bahrain honours the project team following the Best Innovative Project Award at Engineering Expo 2026. Pictured: Ammar Khalid Alharran. The award was made jointly with Sultan Ahmed Alghamdi.
Saudi Cultural Bureau · @sacmbhThe Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture honours the project at its Eastern Province branch, recognising the use of IoT and solar power to convert food waste into organic fertiliser. Presented by Eng. Fahd bin Ahmed Al-Hadrami, Director General, to Eng. Ammar Khalid Alharran and Eng. Sultan Alghamdi. Eastern Province, 7 May 2026.
Ministry release · Eastern ProvincePresented to the Chief Executive of King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam, who referred the project to the Port's Environmental Department. Implementation and pilot options are under review with the department. In progress — no agreement is in place.
King Abdulaziz Port · DammamAlso on record
Project and team certified by Prof. Christina Georgantopoulou, Dean of Engineering, on completion of the final-year engineering programme.
Recognised as a national model. Built to become a national system.
CompostEgo is designed and manufactured in Saudi Arabia. The ambition is a network of units reporting into one place, so a municipality, a port authority or a ministry can measure organic waste the way it already measures water and power — which is what Vision 2030 asks of the environmental sector, and what nobody can currently do.
Request a pilot
A pilot places a CompostEgo unit in a real operating environment — your waste, your staff, your conditions — so the case is made on your numbers rather than ours.
How it runs
What we'll need from you
Duration and cost are set after the assessment, and depend on waste volume, location, configuration and scope. We'll be specific once we've seen the site.