Anambra Acquires Land For Integrated Waste Management Facility

The Anambra State
Government has acquired 50.9 hectares of land at Nkwelle-Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government Area of the state for the establishment of an integrated waste management facility.
Director of Ecology and Environment in the state Ministry of Environment, Mr Joseph Ibuzo, said in Awka yesterday that the land was ready for use and that the government had fully paid compensation for it.
Ibuzo said that construction work would commence in the first quarter of 2014 and that all the waste in Onitsha and its environs, and even beyond would be collected at the facility when functional.
‘’We will even receive waste from other places as long as it is not nuclear waste; the waste will be put on a certain machine which has electronic and magnetic gadgets.
‘’We will sort them into different crates both left over and vegetable materials, the metals will go to its own wing for cleaning and sorting, including used cannibalised cars or motor parts or equipment parts that are dropped by the highways.
‘’Also, the electrical electronics equipment, you notice that many computers are arriving in the state, laptops, desktops, batteries; the bad ones will no longer go to the dump site, but to the waste management facility for recycling,’’ he said.
Ibuzo said that the waste management facility would consist of a composting facility, a material recycling centre and an engineered and operated landfill that would be designed to accept residual waste and minimise environmental and social impacts.
He said that the state had improved its solid waste management capability since the inception of the Anambra State Management Waste Management Agency (ASWAMA) in 2012.
The director stated that the new facility at Nkwelle-Ezunaka would further boost the state’s economy.