Hi, folks, we received the following communication from Simon Bishop of Shell Foundation:
Good morning
Shell Foundation is pleased to announce today a new cross-sector partnership that aims to tackle Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) at scale in Nigeria.
The partnership between ourselves, Envirofit International (a global clean cookstoves business) and C-Quest Capital (a US-base carbon finance business) aims to deliver two million improved cook-stoves to Nigerian households over the next seven years. It will do this by using carbon credits to make cookstoves more affordable in Nigeria.
Clean cookstoves are the most viable solution to IAP – the toxic smoke that claims one life every 16 seconds in the developing world.
Further details attached. If you would like to know more please do get in touch.
Best wishes
Richard
Richard Gomes
Communications Manager
Shell Foundation
Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 207 934 2627
Mobile: +44 7841 879 350
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That’s fantastic! You’re really cooking now.
When will it reach all third world communities since they all lack energy for cooking.
hope to see its use in INDIA in near future!!
My name is Allen Sides. I currently have a business in Florida, The Truck Store, Inc. My primary business is buying and selling trucks, including refuse trucks, Roll-Offs, and other types of solid waste handling trucks. I have been interested in Solid Waste Management for 25+ years and am currently working with a friend of mine to create a program in his country (Nigeria) which has a couple of different needs.
To identify some of the problems we are trying to overcome;
1. Solid Waste Management; Currently their waste stream is being landfilled or simply stored beside the road because no one picks it up. 80% of their waste stream is organic matter.
2. De-Forestation because the “woodlands” are being cut down to be used for fuel for cooking
3. Pollution – Indoor pollution is horrendous because of “open burning” techniques
From reviewing your info it appears that all of our problems are your specialty. Here’s what we have in mind and keep in mind we are “novices” in this area and are very interested in “better ideas” if it remedies the problem.
We have already figured out the “collection process” of the local solid waste. Currently there is approx 10 Tons per day collected with 80% being natural food waste.
What we would like to do is turn the organic waste into “Biochar” or fuel for some type of energy production that is clean, and environmentally friendly. We have reviewed many web sites showing different types of “Clean Cooking Stoves” that actually burn wood but have very little exhaust. This is very attractive to us. Ideally, if we could pick up the waste from beside the road, transfer to a station where the non-organics can be separated (if needed) the organics are dried out enough to become fuel for an electric generator or can be turned into “Biochar” which will add structure and substance to the existing soil.
As I said we are “Novices”. How can we work together?