Waste Not, Want Not: How the AMISOM Incinerator is Revitalizing Somalia’s Environment
About the AMISOM Incinerator
As the largest urban center in East Africa, Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, has long grappled with issues of waste disposal. Prior to the arrival of the AMISOM incinerator, a staggering 5,000 metric tons of household waste poured into the streets, polluting rivers, canals, and seafront areas each year. Moreover, lack of proper sanitation resulted in countless flies, mosquitoes, and rats carrying diseases and compromising public health. In light of these conditions, the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) – under the command of the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and funded by the Swedish Government – responded with the installment of a highly efficient waste-to-energy incinerator, turning waste into precious energy, promoting environmental revival in the Somali Republic.
Reducing the Menace of Odors, Fire, and Infectious Disease
Until AMISOM brought in this futuristic waste-disposal apparatus, countless open dumps served as breeding grounds for vermin. Flies born from garbage proliferated exponentially, carrying parasites in their legs – an all-clear signal to potential carriers of lethal diseases, whose impact transcended national boundaries and jeopardized stability in this nation. Ruminant vermin and airborne organisms also dispersed vectors of contagions. For Somalis struggling amid a nation engulfed by wars, refugee and economic predicament, living nearby waste zones endangered lives through proximity. Moreover, with limited and dilapidated waste removals, stinging odors seeped air, reasserting discomfort; thus the populace endured dire ecological as well as security risks – even before entering modern era!
Main Features:
Energy Harvest
• Burning rate: approximately 200 Tones/day of total waste mass to generate usable hot water & high-quality compost residue.
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