- Kigali will have a modern landfill to manage its household and similar waste.
- The facility will convert organic waste into biogas, electricity, and fertiliser for agriculture.
In the near future, the Rwandan city of Kigali will get a brand-new landfill. Construction on the site is scheduled to begin in June 2023, according to the Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC). Although the landfill won’t be on the same location as the one that has been in use since 2012, it will still be in the Nduba sector.
A portion of the 49,576 tonnes of rubbish that are gathered each day in the city of Kigali will be sorted and recycled at the future landfill, which will be constructed through a public-private partnership (PPP).
At least 70% of the garbage produced in Kigali and kept at the current Nduba dump, according to Rwandan authorities, is organic garbage.
Due to the site’s high methane level, which is a greenhouse gas, fires are brought on by this high content. The Kigali authorities hope to address these issues with the new Nduba landfill project, particularly the pollution issue and the recovery of organic waste as fertilizer for farming and gardening.
Equipment for producing biogas will also be present in the future site. In accordance with Rwanda’s ten-year climate strategy, the gas created by the fermentation of organic waste will be burned in a power plant. By 2030, the East African nation hopes to reduce methane emissions into the atmosphere by extracting and using landfill gas to generate energy. This will cost $28 million (or 26.6 billion Rwandan francs).