By: Verenardo Meeme
An aversion to cooking with gas
based on human and animal excreta and other organic waste means many
Sub-Saharan Africans are unnecessarily exposed to pollution from wood-based
stoves, according to a report.
Heralded as a solution to the problem of wood-based pollution, naturally
occurring microbes can break down organic material to produce so-called biogas which
can be used for cooking and producing energy.
Through the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme that was founded in 2009, about
60,000 small-scale structures called biodigesters for converting waste from
plants and animals into biogas have been constructed in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, says a review published in the August issue of Current
Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.
