Posted on 11/10/2021 12:48:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
Award-winning waste converters are helping farmers in Ivory Coast turn mountains of agricultural by-products into compost for their fields or gas for their cooking stoves.
The small green KubeKo box was dreamt up by chemical engineer Noel N'guessan to make use of the 30 million tonnes of waste generated by crop production in the West African country each year and other biowaste like animal dung.
Farmers like palm oil producer Michel Ahouri simply throw in organic matter and wait four weeks. One box can create 150kg of compost per month.
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No shiite!....................
Everyone with a garden should have one of these in their yard.
Its a composter. You don’t need to be a ChemE to come up with this.
Composting toilets were invented decades ago. Unfortunately, the wealthy person who obtained the patent rights to the Clivus Multrum toilet charged an arm and a leg to buy one. I tried to get a franchise for an island nation where they would have been immensely valuable at the right price, but there was no “give” in the price structure and TBH the company didn’t want to franchise them.
Nobody needs a “box” to compost. The farm I grew up on in the ‘50s had a compost pile that was above 20 feet long and six feet or so wide, 3-4 feet deep, between two stone walls. It had been working since my grandfather started it in the 1920s. It was slowly migrating across the land as we took out material at one end while adding it at the other. We didn’t turn” it, it just decomposed all by itself. What we took out was several years old, and full of earthworms. It ain’t rocket science. Just don’t put meat scraps on it. and don’t expect it to ferment in a couple of months.
Ya gotta teach Ivory Coast farmers how to compost field waste?
What’s wrong with this picture?
Guess we’ll next have to teach ‘em how to walk and chew gum at the same time.
If they want to turn everything to compost, why not just invite in Boko Haram?
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