{
  "id": 7981111,
  "title": "Biochar Industrial Group raises $1.5m to turn Africa’s agricultural waste into carbon credits",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/biochar-industrial-group-raises-1-5m-to-turn-africas-agricultural",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-17T08:02:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechCabal",
    "slug": "techcabal",
    "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/09/17/biochar-industrial-group-raises-1-5-million/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Biochar Industrial Group (BIG), a climate-tech startup founded by former Releaf executives, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to turn agricultural waste from African food factories into carbon-removal credits. The company will use the funding to deploy pyrolysis equipment at food-processing facilities, where it will convert waste such as nut shells, husks, and cobs into biochar—a charcoal-like material that can store the carbon contained in the original biomass waste. BIG will finance and operate the equipment itself, while the factories supply the waste and receive a share of the resulting value.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}