A team from Japan will be in the country to conduct studies on rehabilitating the Kigali city garbage in Nyanza Kicukiro district. The team that was expected to have arrived on Monday this week for a one week study is meant to produce results on how the city garbage can be rehabilitated.

In an interview with Business Times, Reuben Ahimbisibwe Director of Infrastructure in Kigali City Council, the studies will be conducted alongside training of staff on how to implement the design.

A group of technicians from Kigali and other districts will be trained. "This was a controlled dumping site and not a land fill we (KCC) intend to rehabilitate it and use it for three years as we plan for its closure,” he said.

It’s said that the site was constructed long back whereby planners thought it was far from residential area.
The studies will also consider how to control fire generated from methane and oxygen that comes out of the disposed materials.

Kigali City Council intends to construct an international land fill site where organic materials will be recycled to produce fertilizers through the central composite plant.

Ahimbisibwe said that 70 percent of the dumped materials are organic meaning they decompose and generate fire.
Studies for the new landfill site are ongoing under the support from Germany government.

The new garbage comes when citizens complained over the unhygienic conditions at the old garbage in Nyanza garbage site in Kicukiro District that emanate from the site, especially during the rainy season.

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