The Minister of Economy and Planning, Sérgio Santos, announced this Friday to journalists at the end of the meeting of the Economic Commission of the Council of Ministers, chaired by President João Lourenço, in which a project for the management of the Mulenvos landfill was approved, in Luanda, which will become a Solid Waste Recovery Center, with a public-private partnership.
A government study indicates that Angola has 6.3 million tonnes of garbage annually, of which 3.3 are generated in Luanda.
Sérgio Santos said that a tender will soon be launched, which will attract national or foreign investors, "to transform what is now a garbage dump into a recovery center and solid waste".
"The time horizon for implementing these measures is until June 2021 and will reduce part of the expenses that the State has today. Even so, the State will continue to have spending at its level, but we will make the recovery of waste more dynamic", said the minister.
The official announced a financing line to support the recovery and waste value chain, which will use 45 percent for raw materials, 35 percent for fertilizers and the remaining 20 percent for power generation.
"And, obviously, selling energy to the grid and the set of legal and regulatory initiatives to organize this segment that will become a business. According to our studies, we are talking about a market of about 460 billion kwanzas, it is the same as saying that, because we do not value our solid waste, the country loses something like half a billion euros a year ", he stressed.
The government of Luanda announced, on February 12, the launch of new public tenders for the concession of the public cleaning service, after suspending contracts with garbage operators for debt of 246 billion kwanzas.
At the end of last December, the local authorities terminated contracts with six cleaning and waste collection operators in Luanda, mainly due to the inability to settle the debt in kwanzas, indexed to the dollar.
As a consequence, the capital, with more than eight million inhabitants, was invaded by the garbage that accumulates in the neighborhoods, streets and markets, leading the citizens to fear for the worsening of the health problems.
