Greener Living
BURN Opens Nigeria’s First Wood Cook-Stove Factory
- Charcoal, wood fires cause many thousands of deaths in Africa
- BURN, rivals produce stoves that use less wood or other fuels
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BURN, which has made and sold more than four million efficient cook-stoves in Africa, will this month open Nigeria’s first factory for the appliances that slash consumption of wood, reducing pollution and deforestation.
The plant in the northern city of Kano, BURN’s first outside of Kenya, seeks to tap demand in Africa’s most populous country, where few have access to electricity, forcing them to rely on wood and charcoal to cook.