News about waste and recycling
- Kinya Kimathi
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The 2024 Off-Grid Solar (OGS) Market Trends Report notes that only 27% of products sold globally are quality-verified, leaving the majority of the off-grid products that make it to the market (73%) without adequate quality assurance data. This creates uncertainty about the reliability and safety of a large portion of OGS products.
- Kinya Kimathi
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Over the past decade, the sale of off-grid solar appliances has experienced an unprecedented boom. According to the off-grid solar market trends report series published every two years by the World Bank, the number of people accessing solar energy kits has grown from 420 million in 2019 to over 490 million by the end of 2021.
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- The Guardian
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Increasing urbanisation is reducing access to traditional fuels such as wood and crop residue from farmland. But plastic is readily available. Low-income households with little or no access to gas or electricity often find themselves living alongside mountains of rubbish.
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- Solarquarter
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Nigeria and five other African countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Namibia, and Rwanda, yesterday launched the Circular Economy Powered Renewable Energy Centre (CEPREC) as part of steps towards addressing Africa’s energy and e-waste challenges.
- Peter Yeung
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Solar power has transformed life in Africa. Now, as the aging devices begin to break down, “solar entrepreneurs” are keeping them — and local economies — humming.
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- pv magazine
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By globally collecting end-of-first-life solar panels, batteries, and energy storage systems, GE4A refurbishes, reengineers, and repurposes this equipment into high-performance Energy Hubs—decentralized networks that deliver affordable, reliable clean energy.
- Tam Alex
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Imagine a world where electricity isn’t simply a product, but a transformative force — a gateway to education, healthcare, commerce, industry and comfort. In this world, energy access companies don’t just provide solar home systems or mini-grids;
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- Nile Post
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Uganda has made significant strides in addressing e-waste management alongside clean energy expansion under the EASP. The project allocates $110 million for off-grid solutions, focusing on financing energy service companies involved in off-grid solar, clean cooking, and productive-use technologies.
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- Business Day
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Drawing from my experiences working on methane emissions, particularly in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, and my ongoing engagement with waste management stakeholders and experts, I want to share my thoughts on how waste-to-energy (WtE) solutions can reshape African cities.
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- The New Times
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The government of Rwanda is considering scaling up eco-friendly technology to generate biogas from wastewater treatment and be used as cooking fuel across different schools in the country.Anaerobic baffled reactor is a type of sanitation technology that is designed to treat wastewater and fecal sludge, thereby producing energy.