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Piloting circular economy in African countries´ waste management
ADEMED ngo
1) ADEMED ngo presentation2) Waste-to-market approach3) Projects concepts portfolio: Ghana and Uganda
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ADEMED ngo presentation
• Romanian non-profit association
• Serves local communities
• Preference to cutting-edge and innovative technologies
• Education: 6 projects
• Custodian of Cheile Doftanei Natura 2000 ROSCI0283, EU financed the biodiversity inventory
• Horizon 2020: 16 proposals, 3 with 20 African partners (academia and NGOs)
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Demo prototypes for waste-to-market
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Pilot waste-to-market concept
Pilot project components
1) Low-maintenance self waste collection
2) Cooperation with renewable energy equipment suppliers/developers for waste-to-energy
3) Mounting and piloting waste processing demo prototypes
4) Connection to local small farms (construction material, compost and energy from waste)
Partnership architecture
PREVENT:
• Waste processing technology Partner
• Small-scale energy technology Partner
• Community development (ADEMED)
AFRICAN ENTITIES:
-Municipality
-NGOs with social mission
-Commercial companies
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ADEMED partners in Africa
Ghana Uganda
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Basics
Coconut Rice
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Diversify Social Waste Business in Ghana (local partner: Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Solutions)
Coconut waste in Accra
• Partnership with ZaacoalLimited Zaacoal.com producing charcoal briquette from coconut husk for export.
• Large volumes of coconut are transported from the Western Region to Accra and becomes a waste nuisance to sanitation.
• The project needs scale up.
Women operated Palm Oil Processing facility in Kade
• Palm Kernel shells, Palm oil waste and Fibre.
• Palm oil waste for biogas for the cottage women and industry
• Palm kernel shells for briquette and gasification
• Palm fibre for starter fuel, briquette.
• There are large volumes of palm waste - opportunity for Waste-to-energy.
• Local company: Sustainable Energy Technologies Limited as well
• Local NGO: SolidaridadGhana
• Local District Assembly.
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• Asutuare community close to Accra
• Over 5000 rice farmers and a processing center which produce volumes of rice husk that can are usually burnt in open
• Local NGO: Rice farmers association
• Local company NASAG-LAG Enterprise
• Local company: Sterling Technologies Limited.
• To processs the rice husk into briquette for household cooking and industrial boiling
Rice husk briquetting in the Volta region
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Management of the urban waste from Kasese City, Uganda (Local partner:
Gift Women Link ngo)Tech and Market • Urban waste average generation:
0.77 kg/person/day, recovery: 5–40%.
• Kasese municipalities has five irrigations schemes
• Kasese Universities and schools demand for energy is high
• Incipient local recycled-material market
• Recycled material is considered less competitive than the use of virgin materials
Planning framework
• The Bayside Better Place Approach
• The Bayside Environmental Sustainability Framework
• Recycling programs lack documentation.
• Landfills mix plastic wastes with faeces that cause cholera.
• High connection to local farms
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Seed circular path to Coconut waste in Accra, Ghana: missing simple technologies
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Women in Palm Oil Processing in Kade, Ghana: missingother use of waste than energy generation
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Turn rice husks market from Rice Farms in Asutuare: missing
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Urban Waste Management in Kasese, Uganda: missing plastic and packaging documentation
and service
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