Transforming Garbage into Power in Rwanda - 2
Hangenimana and SAM Muhima had tried other income-generating activities before, such as selling vegetables, home-brewed beer, and garbage collection and processing, but it was only in 2004 that their luck changed. They received a grant of $73,500 from USAID through Associates in Rural Development Inc. (a U.S.-based international development organization) for solid waste recycling and biomass energy development.
The grant funded training, equipment, new technology development, and sensitization campaigns. They started collecting garbage daily from over 5,000 households, sorting, and processing the waste into high quality fuel biomass briquettes for household and industrial use, and compost organic fertilizer for agricultural production. Unlike their previous unskilled attempt at processing refuse, demand for both the briquettes and the organic fertilizer is higher than the production capacity of SAM Muhima can meet.
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