The briquettes are providing people in Kenya with a more environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative to firewood and charcoal – saving trees, preventing pollution, improving sanitation and creating local jobs, says Woods.
“In East Africa, the percentage is something like 90% of all residents utilize some solid biomass form daily, so firewood, charcoal, pellets. And because of that deforestation has been a huge problem in Kenya and throughout East Africa.”
Biofuelling the future
More than 2.4 billion people rely on burning wood for cooking, according to 2017 data from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Up to 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans come from the production and use of fuelwood and charcoal.
A big part of the problem is unsustainable forest management, which contributes to forest degradation and deforestation.
Globally, around 17% of all the wood used as fuel is converted to charcoal. Greenhouse gas emissions from inefficient and unsustainable uses of charcoal can be as high as 9kg carbon dioxide equivalent per 1kg charcoal produced.
“For every tonne of charcoal of our briquettes that we sell, we save about 88 trees here in Kenya. People are actually purchasing our fuel because of the environmental impact.”
Based on our projections for the industrial use of Mama moto Briquettes in Kenya in just the next three years, 42,000 tons of CO2 will be absorbed by the trees saved. That’s equivalent to the carbon emissions from 9,000 cars per year or an individual’s carbon burden on over 11,000 commercial flights.
JOBS=SUSTAINABILITY
There aren’t many options for earning a viable income in Kenya. Basic subsistence farming predominates. We are helping to change that by creating additive and year-round jobs with training, benefits, and a pathway for promotions. We have created over 15 permanent jobs at the factory and over 200 jobs on the distribution chain and we expect hundreds more in the future. Our belief is that sustainable jobs are the heart of economic development
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA 2002) traditional stoves that uses
dung and charcoal emit large amounts of carbon monoxide and other noxious substances which
may lead to a wide range of illness and diseases including respiratory tract infection, low birth
weight, nutritional deficiency, airway diseases, lung disease and lung cancer, tuberculosis,
cardiovascular disease and cataracts. Exposure to these pollutants is reported to be higher in
women living in developing countries.
OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE AFFECTED MOST
“OUR SMOKELESS BRIQUETTES PROVIDE A CLEANER COOKING ENERGY SOURCE. SPREADING OUR LOVE TO OUR MAMAS”
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