A Social Business

Waste management and biogas sale, Toffo, Benin

Within a few months you have proven that turning waste into energy is not just cleaning up the area, but changing lives. Organic waste is valuable, piles of waste are like a gold mine! At the new waste management site in TOFFO, Benin, a small team produces GASEOUS GOLD – BIOGAS!

Please see how the business of buying waste from people and selling gas as clean cooking fuel is designed and how they managed to convince 78 households to become regular customers of biogas backpacked cooking fuel. Here a small part of the article translated into English:

See full article in French on Benin Echo: Bénin Echo

Biogas for Refugees, Ethiopia

A biogas pilot in a refugee camp in Ethiopia tests the potential for substituting kerosene and fuel wood by biogas produced from human faeces and organic waste.

Biogas for CITY-zens, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

From the dung of one goat and kitchen waste mixed with all kinds of waste water the small 1.5 m³ biogas digester produces reliably enough gas to replace all cooking fuel for up to 3 people. This test digester is deliberately run under suboptimal conditions to find out the limits of this technology – so far the conditions could not be chosen hard enough…
and the slurry used as organic fertilizer makes vegetable production in the city garden a real pleasure!

School Biogas, Kirenge, Rwanda

This school in rural Rwanda has installed the first biogas system of (B)energy after a teacher had taken the 3-day training in Germany.

This school is organized in an amazing way: the school fee is paid by parents and children by bringing brass and leaves for the animals to eat. the school has cows, sheep, rabbits and pigs and they all need fodder. The dung of these animals is used for biogas production.

Animals and Kitchen are far apart, but the gas is filled into a backpack and transported to the school kitchen, where food for about 60 children is cooked at night on biogas. Well done!

Mobile Biogas, Malata, Malawi

This school in Malawi is using cow dung and kitchen waste to produce 5-6 biogas backpacks full of gas per day. This gas is sufficient to cook for 60 children, who eat at the school.

Besides the easier and much cleaner cooking, the school is very happy about the savings: 11€/week as compared to using fire wood!

Gaushala, Orchha, India

This refuge for abandoned cows is using one (B)plant and 2 (B)packs to produce biogas from cow dung and transport it to the kitchen. There, turmeric and ginger powder are made using biogas.