•Pet bottle with fuel (left), connected to a generator set.
By Elizabeth Adegbesan
In the bustling heart of Nigerian cities and towns, the deafening roar of small gasoline generators, popularly called ‘I better pass my neighbour’, is the soundtrack of survival for hundreds of small business owners.
However, a quiet, homemade engineering trend is spreading through local workshops. Economy&Lifestyle discovered that Nigerian artisans, hit hard by the high cost of petrol, are bypassing their generators’ built-in steel tanks.
Instead, they are using discarded polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles, to act as makeshift, gravity-fed fuel compartments.
