Mozambique: President promises landfills for solid waste in all provinces – Watch

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Mozambique: President promises landfills for solid waste in all provinces – Watch

3:16 CAT | 14 Aug 2020

Photo: TVM

Mozambique’s president, Filipe Nyusi, has announced an initiative to build landfills to take solid waste in all 10 provinces of the country and in the capital, as part of steps to improve the quality of the wider environment.

“The government, through the Ministry of Land and Environment, will develop the presidential initiative to build controlled solid waste management landfills, with one landfill for each province in this first phase,” Nyusi said in a speech in Niassa, in the north of Mozambique, during a presidential visit to the province.

Nyusi acknowledged that the initiative “is insignificant given the vastness of each province in Mozambique” but argued that, even so, it represents a start in an effort “to reduce the unregulated disposal of solid waste in the territory” that is sorely needed.

“It is little, but we are about to start,” he said. “We want scientifically approved landfills.”

The latest major incident evidencing the poor conservation of facilities taking solid waste in the country occurred in February 2018, when part of a rubbish dump at Hulene, the largest in Maputo, collapsed in heavy rain, falling on several precarious dwellings in the surrounding neighborhood and killing 16 people, including seven children. The dump had been as high as a three-storey building.

That year the government announced the closure of the Hulene dump, in an operation whose cost was estimated at $110 million (€93 million, at current exchange rates).

Source: Lusa