Mr. Charles Oyando demonstrating how to create fire briquettes from waste materials.The Community Centre hosted a Solid Waste Management workshop today for youth with our community. During the gathering, a representative of a local environment organization called the Mazingira Institute came to show the participants how they can turn ordinary solid waste materials into fire briquettes that can be solid for cooking fuel.
Commonly in Kenya, people burn charcoal in order to boil water and cook meals. Literally every home we have visited in Eastleigh is burning charcoal made from trees outside of Nairobi. The simple technology that we were introduced today combines waste saw dust, paper materials, and charcoal dust to make an efficient burning briquette. The process uses no electricity and has very little start up cost. A group of young men can easily form themselves into a business, collecting solid waste materials, mix, press and dry them into briquettes and sell them in the road side markets where people look for traditional charcoal.
One of the local youth providing a helping hand in operating the simple wooden press.
Reuben and Vincent are two of our colleagues from the Eastleigh Community Centre who organised the workshop.
Finished fire briquettes being left in the sun to bake.
Especially beneficial if you use the weeds that infest your land for feedstock. Typha, water hyacinth and others clog your waters, depriving your farms and gardens and drying out your land. On land, you have mimosa and others. They are in your nation's way. You now have made the means to make them into resources.
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