Green Charcoal and the 'Typha' plant

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The Typha plant has the potential to be more sustainable alternative for the production of charcoal.Irin news reports:

The “green charcoal” is produced by compressing agricultural waste, like the invasive typha weed, into briquetts and then carbonising them using a machine. The product has the look and feel of traditional charcoal and burns similarly.
“The technology is efficient, effective and economical because we can produce a substitute for charcoal at half the price,” Guy Reinaud, director of Pro Natura International, the French NGO that has partnered with the Senegalese government on the green charcoal project...[more here]

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