Piloting circular economy in African countries´ waste management

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1) ADEMED ngo presentation2) Waste-to-market approach3) Projects concepts portfolio: Ghana and Uganda

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• 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

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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Florin Alexandru, PhD

Florin.alexandru.ro@gmail.com

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