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No Hunger & Malnutrition
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Miticool is an affordable refrigerator made of clay which can be deployed in rural areas without access to electricity. The Mitticool fridge increases the shelf life of food products by up to 5 days.
It is a small refrigerator made of clay for storing vegetables, fruits, milk, and water. It does not need any external source of energy for the cooling effect. The first version of Mitticool had two water chambers, one at the top and the other at the bottom. Water filtered from the top chamber (20-litre capacity) and got collected in the bottom chamber, which also had a dispensing tap. Between the two water chambers was a space for storing vegetables, fruits (up to 3 kg) and milk. The principle of cooling in the mitticool is same as that of clay pots, or ‘matkas’
In the clay fridge water from an upper chamber seeps through the side walls, cooling the lower food chamber through evaporation. The fridge consumes no electricity, is 100-percent biodegradable and produces zero waste during its lifetime.
Refridgerators are one of the largest contributors of chlorofluorocarbons to the environment. Each Mitticool fridge reduces the amount of CFCs released in the environment
These fridges have enabled people in the low-Income areas to store their foods for longer and have thus improved food security.
Typical fridges are expensive and consume electricity over their lifetime, making them unaffordable to the rural poor, who neither have access to resources to buy a fridge nor constant access to electricity.
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