Articles

• Improving household waste management
  24 November 2023, by Philippe

  Towards a sustainable urban transition in Lomé.
  Holistic domestic waste management system in the Grand Lomé: 1.8 M people, 300,000 t/y of solid waste.
  An ongoing multi-tranch project since 2006: Improvement of the holistic solid waste management system and capacity building support. Implementation of engineered landfills with long term biogas and leachate management. Strengthening recovery & recycling initiatives. Improvement of the sector financial resources. Gradual increase of (…)

• Restaurant food waste recovery
  24 November 2023, by Philippe

  Reducing sanitary health risks, promoting waste to energy.
  Prevent restaurant food waste use as direct animal feed, through dedicated collection and treatment systems: Introduction of a dedicated collection system for restaurant food waste. Collection and pre-treatment of used food oils. Anaerobic digestion facility producing biogas for heat and power co-generation. Financial viability of the operations through: Waste collection tax; Sales of oil, electricity and heat.
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• Non-recyclable waste into green energy
  24 November 2023, by Philippe

  Heat and power production as an alternative to landfilling.
  The Sète waste-to-energy plant:
  55,000 t/y of non-recyclable waste processed in an 18.1 MW oscillating furnace to produce 15.7 GWh of electricity 23 GW of steam
  – https://www.paprec.com/fr/ikos-fresnoy-folny-pionnier-de-la-methanisation