Kaze Green Economy, or KAGE, is a social enterprise that manufactures wood and charcoal substitutes from biodegradable waste.

The company also makes safe and energy efficient cooking stoves from recycled plastic and metal waste.

[1] Maize salks are collected from households and dumps, dried to remove all moisture, partially burned in ovens, crushed into a carbon-rich powder, then combined with other products.

[3] The product reduces the incentive to cut down trees for fuel, and as a side effect helps keep the streets clean.

Initial trials were unsatisfactory, but when corn cobs were added the results were good, and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research validated the product.

Piles of rice husks are stored on the east side, which has interconnected machines making coal and briquettes.

[9] In October 2021 the wives of the premiers of Burundi and Niger visited the Afritextile, Kaze Green Economy and FOMI factories in Bujumbura.