LAGOS CITY CLIMATE INNOVATIVE ACTIONS AND

SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE

Ola OresanyaManaging Director

Lagos Waste Management Authority

4TH – 5TH Sept., 2013

Presentation at C40 & Siemens City Climate

Leadership Awards Conference

@

LONDON

- Focus on Integrated Solid Waste Management Project, Epe Lagos, Nigeria

Introduction- City of Lagos

Progress Shift

Challenges

Outcome

Investment Opportunities

Recommendations

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CITY OF LAGOS

Population - Over 18 Million.

Growth rate: - 6 – 8%.

Waste generation: - 10,000MTPD.

GPC - 0.5kg/person/day.

Lagos VD - Over 222veh/km.

National VD - 1veh/km.

Demography

Vegetables

45%

Papers

10%

Glass

5%

Plastics

15%

Metals

5%

Textiles

4%

Fines

8%

Putrescibles

8%

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Estimated Waste Generation of Lagos State

ACTUAL PROJECTION

DAILY PROJECTION

LAGOS WASTE ANALYSIS

Vegetables

45%

Papers

10%

Glass

5%

Plastics

15%

Metals

5%

Textiles

4%

Fines

8%

Putrescibles

8%

Pie Chart Showing The Percentage Volume Distribution of the Waste Stream

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PROGRESS SHIFT

Pre-2005

POST 2005 – The Approach &

Initiatives

STYLE STRUCTURE

SKILLSSTAFF

•Staff Motivation

•Sharing the Vision

•Ownership of the New Vision

•Setting the New Agenda

Engineering

Scientific approach

Administrative

Communication etc.

SUSTAINABILITY

Creating New

Brands

W2W

very useful after all

W2MClimaDollar

W2G

Cash

W2S

Muscle

Gender Bliss

Did I Hear You Say Waste?

The Relevance

INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT

INITIATIVES

Waste Containerization Strategy

Use of Appropriate Waste Trucks

Skip bins - Tricycle

Intermediate Waste Disposal Facilities (TLS)

Medical Waste Facility

Medical Waste Treatment Plant, Oshodi

Nylon Buyback Programme

ADVOCACY

• Public Private Partnerships

• Our partners include:

• CCI

• ACAD

•UNEP

• USEPA

• WORLD BANK/IBRD

• LOCAL INVESTORS AND

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Signing of MOU for ISWM

CHALLENGES

Climate conditions

Cultural and Socio – economic factors

Budgeting/Funding

Technology/Technical Capacity

Energy

Capacity Building

OUTCOMES

•Cleaner environment

• Best practice (technology and knowledge transfer)

• Investment opportunities

• Market based Solution to waste challenges

•CDM registration of 5 landfill sites under the UNFCCC

rules.

• empowerment and Job creation

Nylons Recycling Plant

Converting waste to compost (250bags of 25kg) daily.

London C40 Workshop

Olushosun Landfill Waste to Energy (WTE) Project –

o potential CER’s from this project is 1,000,000 units over 10

years

CONSTRUCTION OF BIOGAS PLANT FOR WTE: USING MARKET WASTE

PROJECT IN FOCUS

Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) Facility at Epe as well as methane gas

capture and Utilization project at Abule-Egba and Solous Landfills –

Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative developed in collaboration with

Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI);

Observance of International Due Diligence (RFP issuance, selection of

preferred bidder etc)

Government financially responsible for phase I (engineering designs and

drawings , gas capture and utilization , CDM registration);

Proper capping of the two (2) landfill sites to ensure site is secured for gas

capture;

Evaluation/feasibility of LFG possibility is supported by US – EPA;

Proposed CER’s from the gas capture and utilization is to serve as

government equity for operation and maintenance of the Epe ISWM

project under Phase II;

Construction/ O&M of ISWM Facility, Epe (Phase II)

Landfill gas Capture & Utilization Projects (3 Landfill sites).

Nylon / plastics recycling projects

Construction and Demolition Waste Management

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Potential for Replicability/ LAWMA’s

Footprints

WEST AFRICA Banjul, Gambia

Accra Metropolitan Authority (Ghana)

City of Freetown (Sierra Leone)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Cote d’ivoire

NIGERIA Federal Capital territory (Abuja)

Ogun State

Plateau State

Ekiti State

Cross Rivers State

Osun State

Kogi State

RECOMMENDATIONS

Use of adaptable technologies

Co-operations/collaboration necessary for sustainable waste management

Adoption of suitable market based strategy.

Welcome to LAGOS

THANK YOU!