To ensure a sustainable future, the United Nations has charged organisations around the world to take action to reduce carbon Dioxide and other GHG emissions using alternative energy to save the mother earth from further depletion.
It is against this background, that Dangote Cement charted a course for itself to be part of efforts at redeeming the earth. The company keyed into the global action, being championed by the United Nations, to reverse the trend and invariably turn the waste materials hitherto thrashed into wealth for the benefit of the people and good of the society.
Buoye is one of the hamlets famed for palm oil milling as a major source of livelihood for the people. As the team members disembarked from their vehicles, they were confronted by heaps of PKS, a discarded material from the palm oil milling considered as a waste but which the company now seeks to convert to income for the millers.
This, according to him, they have been doing for years. It was at this juncture that the Dangote cement officials explained their mission to their hosts. He explained that with the ongoing global attention being paid to deployment of alternative fuel, Dangote Cement, as a global player is leading the efforts to examine critically the alternative fuel value chain and map out how the waste collectors could be empowered to raise the awareness as to the usefulness of the PKS and expand their capability to collect more through the provision of modern technology as opposed to the current primitive methods and get more reward for their efforts by...
Going forward, the millers were assured Dangote would engage in periodic value chain analysis and community engagements with the waste collectors as well as the palm oil millers in communities across Nigeria to explore avenues to empowering them to bolster production which in effect will lead to sustainable generation of PKS to be co-processed in the cement kilns to recover energy and leaving zero waste.
To drive home the point that the palm oil million is a family affair, he explained that the entire process of getting PKS from the point of harvesting the palm tree involves as much as 30 people depending on the number of the palm tree being processed.