Eco-Biofuel is part of the Green Culture Community Initiative Africa (GCCIAFRICA) located in Kitui, Kenya. GCCIAFRICA provides employment to unemployed youths and teen mothers by utilizing waste streams to create artwork and cooking fuel. Waste plastic is used to create handicraft to be sold to the tourism industry and waste biomass is used to create cooking fuel. With these waste streams, Eco-Biofuel creates affordable, high calory, smoke-less, and soot-less charcoal briquettes which are marketed under the name GCCIAFRICA. Eco-Biofuel employs 30 people, all of which are young men (60%) and women (40%), who collect waste and produce briquettes.

Eco-Biofuel charcoal briquettes are made using charcoal dust, dried farm residues like dicot waste, green grams and beans waste, and saw dust. For production, Eco-BioFuel uses their own locally-made carbonization equipment, and mixes their feedstock with a water and cassava flour binder to create their briquettes. This process takes about two days, depending on the drying conditions, and produces half a ton of briquettes a week.

Erick Mutua Mbeva, CEO, has big goals for his group and wants to leverage his participation in HFI Kenya to enhance his technical skills and forge new partner relationships. As Eco-Biofuel increases its production, it will be able to provide more jobs for the youth in the area while cleaning up waste streams and producing an affordable fuel.