Kinshasa RDF Project - Testing Phase Underway
Most of it ends up in landfill. Very little of it is put to productive use.
That's the problem we're working to solve. Auremin is currently on the ground in Kinshasa conducting landfill site testing - gathering field data on waste composition, site logistics, and environmental conditions to inform the design of our Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) facility.
Kinshasa generates several thousand tonnes of municipal solid waste every day, and the vast majority of it is landfilled or dumped informally. It is one of the largest untapped feedstocks in the city, and one of its most visible environmental and public health challenges.
RDF is a processed industrial fuel made from the combustible fraction of waste that would otherwise go to landfill - plastics, textiles, paper, and other non-recyclable materials. Once sorted, shredded, and dried, it becomes a consistent, high-calorific-value fuel that industrial users can burn in place of coal or heavy fuel oil. Cement plants are the largest end-market globally, but RDF is also used in lime kilns, industrial boilers, and power generation.
For Kinshasa, this means two things happening at once. Waste that today sits in landfill is diverted into a productive industrial input. And local industrial users gain access to a reliable, locally produced fuel at a time when imported alternatives are expensive, volatile, and logistically difficult to secure.
This is where Auremin's model comes together. We are developing the facility, structuring the offtake, and building the supply chain that moves the fuel from the facility to the industrial users who need it. Infrastructure, trading, and logistics - designed together, not bolted on afterwards.
This is infrastructure development in its most practical form: identifying a physical constraint, understanding it from the ground up, and building a solution that creates value on both sides.
More updates to follow as the project progresses.
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