In July, members of the parliamentary committee of the Congolese government and the economic and financial commission of Congo National Assembly, representatives of Brazzaville Municipality and the mayors of Pointe Noire and Brazzaville, visited Lifoula landfill site. This will become the republic’s first public and fully environmentally-compliant municipal solid waste landfill.
Located in the vicinity of Lifoula village and entirely designed, built and operated by Averda, a global waste management solutions provider, Lifoula landfill will stretch across 40 hectares of land. It will have eight storage cells and an operational lifespan of 15 years.
Designed as a municipal solid waste landfill, Lifoula will open its first cell in January 2017, the remaining seven cells being rendered operational in a phased approach, with the last cell scheduled to be commissioned in October 2030.
The new landfill, a first of its kind not just for the republic but for the Central African countries, will be equipped with a leachate collection and treatment system, a system for the capture and reuse of biogas released by the waste land filled, and with a system for the collection and treatment of the surface water.
A Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews’ study showed that substantial electricity could be generated by landfill gas alone across the African continent by 2025.
Mohamad Ghalayini, MD, Averda Congo, said: “We are pleased to see the commitment and dedication of Brazzaville authorities to make the capital city of Congo a cleaner and safer place. The new landfill will not only provide an infusion of much-needed capital investment and job creation in Brazzaville, but it will also capitalize on the by-products of waste generation, where the food waste will be turned into organic compost and supplied to the Congolese farmers while the biogas emanated by the landfill can provide electricity to the grid.”
Averda set to build Congo’s municipal solid waste landfill
Averda set to build Congo’s municipal solid waste landfill
