Truecoco becomes West Africa’s first EBC Agro-organic project

We are pleased to announce that Truecoco Ghana has achieved its European Biochar Certification, Agro-organic certification becoming the first in West Africa to achieve this certification. EBC is the standard bearer for high quality production of biochar & a great milestone in the Truecoco biochar journey.

About EBC:

The EBC was developed to limit the risks of biochar usages to the best of our scientific knowledge and to help the users and producers of biochar to prevent or at least to reduce any hazard for the health and for the environment while producing and using biochar.

The goal of these guidelines is to encourage and ensure the control of biochar production and quality based on well-researched, legally backed-up, economically viable and practically applicable processes. Users of biochar and biochar-based products will benefit from transparent and verifiable monitoring and quality assurance. It is our moral obligation as well as the duty of every biochar user's duty to make sure that a good idea is not be corrupted. The certificate was designed to serve this goal.

Currently, the European Biochar Certificate is a voluntary industry standard in Europe. In Switzerland, however, it is obligatory for all biochar sold for use in agriculture. Several other countries aligned their biochar related regulations with the EBC.