<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Michael, <div><br><div>Sorry for your hassles there. </div><div><br></div><div>The trick to handling cardboard to rid it of the stinky and possibly carcinogenic glue faction, is incredibly simple: My friends Mary and Francia Kavita in Kenya told me the secret: Just wash it out -- just as anyone in a traditional cooking situation does with beans rice other grains: You just pour off/decant the dirty water !</div><div> You soak the cardboard stir it mash it around till it is thoroughly saturated then decant the dirty water and add fresh water. Repeat if necessary till the water runs clear...you want the fibers and combustibles remaining and not the saturated dissolved glues and that seems to work pretty well. Phd dissertation anyone ? </div><div><br></div><div>On the issue of working in or near a dump, or with anything that is locally construed as garbage I have always cautioned anyone especially one who is just starting out with what is a new product like this , to become associated with waste or "garbage" esp. one who is just starting out, for the very reason that you are being stigmatized. </div><div><br></div><div>Your decision to shift over to biomass is a great idea but you need to take it one step further. Use the consumers to drive the preference for the resources: They know what burns best with what aromas for what kinds of cooking and heating needs they have. Engage them to drive the blending process with some incentive discounted briquettes etc etc,. And you have your first consumers driving the market for you. </div><div><br></div><div>As an ongoing income source for you: </div><div>• Aside from setting up the obvious; Aa production operation and I mean large scale using such as the 20+ briquette-per-minute production machine, like what we assisted in the design of in Haiti. Kevin Adair's (E Fuego del Sol/Haiti) did all the work and fine tuning of it though)… </div><div> </div></div></body></html>