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The Life Changing Biomass Gas Stove

customers admiring their newly acquired Energy Kits..Ilora community,Oyo South West Nigeria. ERWAP Energy Kits are safe to use ... no fear of explosion ... no smoke ... no dangerous emissions ... and much easier and  cheaper to cook with when compared to cooking with charcoal or wood. Our fuel pellets are produced from bio-waste resources. Thereby directly addressing the environmental pollution generated from  open-field waste burning in Nigeria. Our biofuel pellets convert crop residues and other bio-waste resources into an energy source, in pellet form, to be used for smoke-free and pollution-free cooking. Our ERWAP Energy Kit offers you and your family a cleaner and healthier life by protecting everyone from the smoke and toxic poisons that they breathe in when you cook with wood or charcoal. This will take us to our next topic: Crop residues burning, soil pollution and sustainable food production. Watch for it soon ... Have a happy and safe day
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Air pollution,Dirty Cooking Fuels & Our Health

Indoor air pollution from inefficient cooking methods using firewood/charcoal cook stoves and traditional cooking methods causes cancer, pneumonia and other diseases that can effect the lungs of mostly women and children. Traditional cooking methods can also cause skin burns and other injuries to women and children. But what about malaria🤔 Mosquitoes causing malaria  can be increased in the home environment as a result of extreme heat from cooking ... yeah you heard me. From the extreme heat when wood and charcoal are used for cooking, many pollutants are introduced into the air we breathe. But why is wood for cooking dangerous? This is it ... trees are "the lungs of the earth" and meant to keep us healthy. They purify the air by storing airborne pollutants, odors and pollutant gases such as nitrogen oxide, ammonia and sulfur dioxide in their barks. Toxins are absorbed through the tree's stomata ("skin pores). When trees are cut a lot of of these pollutant

The Distressed Environment

Mrs olatayo cooking at her house captured by our amateur photographer. W omen in  Mrs Olatayo category are among  the 85% of the Nigeria population without access to clean energy for cooking,for such  women  it is either they use traditional firewood cook stoves or buy expensive charcoal paired with kerosene for daily cooking,while this type of cooking is going on you can always see them with wet eyes as a result of the smoke,you would also always see them with burn skin,majority actually do not know that this type of cooking endangers their health beyond wet and burn skin,until they started having respiratory problems and some eventually die as a result of the overexposure to smokes from  polluting cooking methods Inhaling smokes from cooking for 4.5 hours of exposure has been linked as equivalent to smoking 20 packs of cigarettes per day. Even me as a writer of this blog never knew that  the open fire cooking methods practiced by our mothers cause  havocs beyond the bu