Abstract
Huge amounts of agricultural waste are being generated daily in Sub Saharan Africa and are being left to rot resulting in the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the environment and eventually climate change effects. In this study, agricultural waste was converted to bio char and its potential to be used as an additive in shoe wax production evaluated. Slow pyrolysis of the agricultural waste was done at 400 °C for 3 hours resulting in a bio char yield of 65%. This bio char was added with beeswax in the ratio 1:1 to result in a shoe wax. The produced shoe wax physiochemical properties compared very well to the standard shoe waxes available on the market. This study revealed that agro waste bio char can be utilized as a raw material in organic shoe wax production.