Start-up Offers Clean Streets, Cleaner Fuel in Cameroon
The streets and marketplaces of Cameroon’s economic capital Douala are strewn with fruit and vegetable debris of all sorts: banana peels, corncobs, coffee grounds, mashed sugarcane… you name it.
But one man’s garbage is another’s treasure, and the unsightly rubbish has become the raw material for Kemit Ecology, a startup that has developed a process for transforming the waste into fuel.
The company, launched in July 2014, sweeps the scraps off the streets and uses them to produce “organic charcoal” briquettes for cooking.
Rod Waddington