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Wallace Ruzvidzo, Herald Reporter
THE Geo Pomona Waste Management facility is feeding into the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the UN University Institute for Natural Resource in Africa has said.
A team from the research institute is in the country and yesterday undertook a tour of the waste management firm’s facility in Harare.
In an interview after the tour, Dr Ferdinand Tornyie, a research fellow at the UN University Institute for Natural Resource in Africa, described the project as a positive development towards the attainment of SDGs.
The 2030 agenda for sustainable development adopted by all UN member States in 2015 provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.
At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries, developed and developing, in a global partnership.
“So if you have a system that is able to use waste to generate energy, then it is speaking to cleaner energy,” Dr Tornyie said.
“It is when you are able to process organic manure from this system. Then we are also talking to manure for agriculture activities, that is, speaking to food security.
“So we see this place as a place that is going to be feeding into a lot of the sustainable development goals.”
The research institute was interested in waste management issues, thus, they were keen on coming back to the Geo Pomona facility.
“It is very interesting to visit this waste management plant. For us as researchers from the United Nations University, we are very much interested in the issues around waste management, natural resource management and also power generation,” Dr Tornyie said.
“So having a plant that is able to collect municipal waste, and then be able to use the various components to produce other products is a great idea.
“We also like what is happening here because of the various treatment points that you have shown us that happens within the treatment process.”
Dr Tornyie commended the waste management firm for the research undertaken in making the project a success.
“That is very good. We also see a lot of research that needs to be going on here to be able to see how this system works, especially in terms of the treatment,” he said.
“So it is very interesting to visit this site and we wish to come back here.”
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