【Environmental Protection】Briquette charcoal production and collection of solid waste

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Regarding ‘Environmental Protection through Expanding Lemon grass growing and Education in Uganda’, this is the sixth report of 2nd year of this project.

Briquette charcoal 

This time, new activities: ‘Activity 3.6: Establish a briquette charcoal production unit’ and ‘Activity 3.7 Conduct collection of solid waste for briquette production’ were conducted from January 2019.

♪Effective utilization of  wastage of lemon grass♪

Outline:

It is able to undertake to produce briquette charcoal after learning of the wastage of lemon grass after extraction of oil. Making briquette would also help in achieving sustainable crop waste management. The activity was also intended to make use of lemon grass after extraction of oil as well as other crop waste like maize stalk and other organic domestic waste. This would enable us to achieve sustainable cooking energy which is also essential in saving that trees that are cut in search of wood charcoal and firewood.

Activities:

Activity 3.6 Establishing briquette charcoal production unit.

1. Conducting a feasibility study to investigate if raw materials for making good briquette were available

2.  Transportation of briquette production machines from Capital city Kampala and its installation.

3. Collection of materials and constructing the briquette charcoal making shade and the briquette charcoal drying rake

4.  Installing parts of the production unit and conducting production tests.

5.  Training staff on the marketing and promotion of briquette charcoal

Activity 3.7 Collecting solid, farm and domestic waste from communities

1.     Mobilization of 20 farmers to accept solid waste provision to our collectors.

2.     Collectors moving to the villages to collect 60 tons of solid waste.

3.     Collectors collecting and dumping waste at our briquette charcoal making factory

Loading Briquette production machine

Preparing the ground for drier construction

Drier construction in Progress

Facilitating the training on marketing of Briquettes

Waste, Maize corns collected 

Organic waste used to produce char

Char being removed from mixer

 trainee studying the Briquette charcoal producing machine 

 Outcomes:

Ø  Obtained a briquette production and related business training manual

Ø  Created opportunities for youths who are involved in the routine production and sales of briquette to the community and other consumers.

Ø  Introduced monetarization of crop waste that farmers have been just wasting/burning

Ø  More trees will be saved in the future as households would turn to use briquette for cooking instead of using fire wood/ wood charcoal.

Ø  Enough solid waste material for briquette charcoal production was collected and stored for continuous production of briquette charcoal

You can find the details in the reports below,

→Activity 3.6 Establish a briquette charcoal production unit

→Activity 3.7 Conduct collection of solid waste for briquette production

*This project is supported by Japan Fund for Global Environment of the Environmental Restoration (JFGE) and by Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA)

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