Syrian workers use olive oil to make eco-friendly pomace wood - in pictures
A worker lines up tubes of pomace wood, known locally as 'birin', a flammable and eco-friendly product made from olive oil waste that can be used to heat houses during winter, at factory in the town of Armanaz, in Syria's Idlib province. All photos by AFP
The waste that remains after the olives are pressed to make oil is gathered, shaped into pipes, cut and then sun-dried.
Workers feed a machine with olive waste before it is transformed into pipes of birin.
The olive mill pomace offers consumers an alternative to gas and electricity.
Workers feed a machine with olive waste.
A worker packs birin into sacks.
A worker empties a wheelbarrow filled with olive waste.
Using the compacting machine.
Birin is loaded onto a lorry.
Drying in the sun.
The factory in Armanaz produces tonnes of the fuel each month.
