- A waste-to-energy plant is to be built in the Kwekwe community of Zimbabwe
- The project is a part of the nationwide clean-up campaign.
The municipal authorities of Kwekwe, with the support of the Zimbabwe government, is set to construct a waste-to-energy plant. The plant is a part of the nationwide clean-up campaign to reduce the amount of municipal and industrial waste led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The plant will be located on a 50-hectare site near the municipality’s wastewater treatment plant in Dutchman’s Pools. Lucia Mnklanda, KweKwe’s municipal secretary, said the project would provide electricity from waste to the people. For his part, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Nqobizhita Ndlovu, said the future waste-to-energy plant would be state of the art to incinerate both general and hazardous waste.
According to the Environmental Management Agency (EMA), Zimbabwe produces 1.7 million tonnes of solid waste annually. Hence, waste collection and recovery has become a priority for the government. The waste-to-energy plant is considerable progress in the East African country, where the rate of access to electricity is about 41.1 per cent.