Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad, was joined by Qalyubia Governor Abdel-Hamid al-Hagan; and Mesky Brhane, World Bank’s Regional Director for Sustainable Development in the MENA, to lay the foundation stone for the Integrated Waste Treatment City in the Shrqiya satellite city of 10th of Ramadan.
The complex comes under the project of the Air Pollution and Climate Change Management in Greater Cairo, implemented by the Ministries of Environment and Local Development, with funding from the World Bank. The complex should serve Cairo, Qalyubia and the New Urban Authority.
The Integrated Waste Management complex aims to treat waste with state-of-the-art technology, and safely bury the remaining rejected waste. The facility will include a solid waste treatment station for Cairo Governorate in addition to a landfill for rejected waste, as well as a medical waste treatment station. Qalyubia too will get a solid waste treatment station in the complex, as well as a landfill for rejected waste, and a medical waste treatment plant.
The New Urban Communities Authority also gets a waste treatment station, in addition to a station for treating construction waste for Cairo and Qalyubia, and a station for treating hazardous industrial waste. The project is implemented in cooperation with the ministries of local development, environment, planning, and finance.
According to the Minister of Environment, establishing a waste treatment complex has been a dream since 2019, especially considering the role that waste systems plays in alleviating air pollution and reducing emissions, and accordingly in restraining increased global warming. This, she explained, prompted the World Bank to contribute USD14 million to the Greater Cairo project.
The Waste Treatment City will sit on 1228 feddans [1 feddan = 4,200sq.m], Dr Fouad said. She explained that it will have the capacity to handle all types of waste, whether garbage, construction, medical or hazardous waste, and will also include recycling factories. The Minister of Environment pointed out that Cairo and Qalyubia generate 20 per cent of Egypt’s solid waste.
The Minister of Environment witnessed a presentation by officials in the company executing the project about the completion rates, and the latest construction work carried out in the project on the ground. So far, work is underway in the city’s outer wall which should be surrounded by a tree fence. Work is also underway in the internal roads and the infrastructure works as well as communications facilities, including a drinking water supply network, a sewage network, as well as a rainwater drainage system and fire-fighting systems will be built.
According to Minister of Local Development, Hisham Amna, the contribution of the Ministry of Local Development in the project comes within the framework of a five-component loan agreement worth USD200 million that was signed with the World Bank in 2021. The Integrated Waste Management City is worth USD14 million; it falls under the second component whose financial budget is estimated at USD126 million which are directed towards infrastructure, response to coronavirus, medical waste management and institutional enhancement and organisational support.
Watani International
25 February 2024
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