Our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman Dr Dilesh Nguwaya delivered a detailed speech about how we have transformed the Pomona dumpsite into a modern waste management facility during the just ended #ISWA2025 World Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Below is Dr Nguwaya’s full speech:
The City of Harare concluded a Build Own Operate Transfer {BOT} joint venture agreement with Geo Pomona Waste Management with a contractual lifespan of 30 years. The infamous Pomona site was handed over to Geo Pomona Waste Management by the City of Harare on 28 April 2022.
Our project was granted a national project status by the government of Zimbabwe, affirming its strategic importance to the Zimbabwe’s sustainable development and environmental management goals.
Our vision is to be the best and most efficient waste to energy plant in Africa and beyond, setting the standard for public private partnerships in providing a better and more sustainable life for our citizens.
This project aims to transform the Pomona dumpsite into a modern waste management facility for the City of Harare and its residents, elevating the city’s urban waste management capabilities to modern standards.
Our vision is to be the best and most efficient waste to energy plant. Our mission is to operate a world class international waste management and power generation enterprise. We will collaborate and partner with our diverse stakeholders to ensure sustainable long-term benefits to all communities and future generations.
Challenges previously faced at the infamous Pomona dumpsite in Harare such as land sale, air pollution, lack of access roads, more than 1,000 families or scavengers lived on the dumpsite, which was a huge health hazard. But some of them are now working at the Geo Pomona Waste Management Pvt Ltd while some were relocated by the government of Zimbabwe to a safer place.
Uncontrolled fire outbreaks, water pollution, toxic environment, emission of greenhouse gases, which can negatively impact the environment.
So, the Pomona dumpsite before was a toxic place, and when we took over from the City of Harare, we have transformed the place into a modern facility with roads, we have weighbridges, landfills, water treatment plant and the biggest sorting plant in Southern Africa where segregate the waste, but all this was done by our Zimbabwean engineers.
We are now into waste collection, and we procured our trucks. We are doing door to door waste collections. We first cleared dumpsites over 280, 000 tonnes of waste.
