An innovative project that is safer and cheaper and reduces deforestation and respiratory diseases

"Expo Live" supports "green coal" in the Republic of Benin

• Women around the world largely take on the daily responsibilities of cooking.

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Extensive use of wood charcoal and fuelwood by families in the Republic of Benin causes deforestation, in addition to many respiratory diseases. Therefore, since 2017, the company "Olmity Services Plus" has started producing green charcoal "GANKAN" from agricultural residues.

This product is - according to Expo Live, the Expo 2020 Dubai Social Impact Innovation Support Program - cleaner, safer, cheaper, and looks similar to the products people are used to.

Environmentally friendly production

The company is also seeking to produce clean, efficient and improved cook stoves, with the launch of a large-scale reforestation campaign, and the company's mission is primarily to produce and sell environmentally friendly briquettes locally, to provide a sustainable alternative to traditional unsustainable coal, and to provide jobs that are socially just, and safe in time. The same is true for the poor who live in big cities like Cotonou and Porto Novo.

The company is a factory of charcoal briquettes made from 100% recycled biomass, and agricultural waste represented in rice husks, coconut, peanuts, cotton stalks, and charcoal residues.

The company produces more than 10 metric tons of environmentally friendly briquettes per month, to provide a sustainable alternative to traditional charcoal, and the company says that the briquettes are high density, so they have a longer burning time (higher fixed carbon content), as well as they do not emit sparks that can burn They cause house fires, and they do not emit smoke that causes respiratory diseases when cooking indoors, and they come in small pieces.

regular distributors

The company stated that it has many restaurants and stores that use its briquettes, as well as retail outlets that have begun to sell its products, and a group of regular distributors, noting that monthly sales of about 10 tons, provide more than 750 tons of wood that has not been cut from forests. Benin, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions to more than 1,500 tons annually, and these numbers are set to grow in tandem with the expansion of the company’s business during the coming period.

The company confirmed that it is willing to share its knowledge about briquettes production, market stimulation, distribution and sales in Africa, and is looking to participate in events to give presentations on its business model and publish findings on environmental and social impacts.

clean cooking

According to the Clean Cooking Alliance, a non-profit organization working with the support of the United Nations, millions of people die prematurely each year from diseases linked to exposure to smoke from pollution, open fires, or inefficient stoves. Cleaner, more advanced stoves and fuels can reduce emissions and the burden of disease associated with household air pollution. Clean cooking is vital to combating global climate change and reducing environmental degradation.

fatal effects

Since women around the world largely bear the daily responsibilities of cooking, clean cooking can alleviate the health problems and economic burdens that affect them. Every day, millions of women around the world breathe harmful smoke while cooking and spend long hours walking. Long distances to secure cooking fuel.

Reliance on polluting fires and inefficient fuels leads to fatal health effects, as well as economic effects such as the inability to achieve full education.

Expo Live

The "Expo Live" program - with its allocation of 100,000 dollars (about 367,000 dirhams), per request for each innovative project, according to the completeness and size of the innovation - contributes to accelerating creative solutions that improve the quality of life, while preserving and protecting the planet.

Expo Live supports and promotes these solutions, through the “Innovation Impact Grants Program” and the “Innovation Program for Universities”.

According to Expo 2020 Dubai, it is not only about providing funding to innovators, but the winning recipients of funding will have opportunities to establish partnerships, and communicate through networks with parties that share interests, as innovators are linked to international networks of participating countries, commercial partners, and regional and global businesses. And millions of visitors are expected to attend Expo 2020 Dubai, which begins on October 1.

the problem

Deforestation and health risks arising from the production of charcoal from timber.

The solution

Charcoal briquettes made from organic waste.

Monthly sales of 10 tons, save more than 750 tons of “Benin” forest timber.

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