http://blogs.washplus.org/iaqupdates/2013/08/zambia-new-stove-could-eliminate-use-of-charcoal/ from the WASHplus Project Sat, 19 Sep 2015 07:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.4 http://blogs.washplus.org/iaqupdates/2013/08/zambia-new-stove-could-eliminate-use-of-charcoal/#comment-64667 Thu, 19 Sep 2013 06:33:31 +0000 http://blogs.washplus.org/iaqupdates/?p=3726#comment-64667 […] The rate of deforestation in Zambia is alarming. The country loses 650,000 to 700,000 acres of its 125,000 million acres of forest each year. One of the major drivers is charcoal production for usage as fuel in traditional stoves. A new start-up, Emerging Cooking Solutions is looking to tackle this problem by using sawdust from pine and eucalyptus trees to produce pellets that will be used in the startup’s new stove called the SupaMoto stove. The stove will use these bio-waste pellets sourced from the bustling sawdust industry in the Kitwe region on the Copper belt of the country. Read more here. […]

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