The Algerian government will allocate 275 million Algerian dinars (about €1.75 million) to the authorities of the wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou for the modernization and extension of the capacity of the Oued-Falli technical landfill (CET).
The promise of funding from the Algerian government was made on March 14, 2022, through the Minister of Environment, Samira Moualfi. It is an envelope of 275 million Algerian dinars, nearly 1.75 million euros. The wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou, which is the recipient, will rely on this funding to improve the management of its solid waste.
The immediate plan is to modernize and expand the capacity of the Oued-Falli landfill, which is overflowing with waste. Currently, the site stores the solid waste of 24 councils out of the 67 that the wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou counts. This is equivalent to an average of 376 tons of waste per day. A quantity already enormous and which should still increase with the demographic growth.
A situation that tends to be generalized
Among the work to be done in the CET Oued-Falli, is the installation of additional cassiers burial that will collect more waste. In the wake, the Algerian government recalled that this situation is not unique to the CET Oued-Falli.
In the wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou, three other CETs have also reached saturation. Thus, the authorities and regional entrepreneurs have been invited to find sustainable solutions to reduce the dumping of solid waste in this region of northern Algeria, “including the immediate use of selective sorting upstream and in the long term to invest in the recycling of waste (biogas, electricity or fertilizer) which is a niche creator of wealth and jobs,” said Samira Moualfi.
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The Algerian Minister of the Environment has also issued in situ an operating license for a private unit of processing by-products of olive growing specializing in the manufacture of charcoal briquettes from olive pomace and wood. The same March 14, 2022, Minister Samira Moualfi presided over the signing ceremony of three training agreements on the promotion and protection of the environment between national agencies and associations and local communities.
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