Source: The Herald – Breaking news.
Geo Pomona Waste Management chief executive officer and executive chairman Dr Dilesh Nguwaya (centre) leads a City of Masvingo delegation on a tour of the waste management facility in Harare yesterday. 
Wallace Ruzvidzo-Herald Reporter
Masvingo City Council is looking to learn best waste management practices from Geo Pomona Waste Management as the local authority continues to seek solutions to adopt, its acting director of Health Services Mrs Sithabile Matava has said.
A City of Masvingo team was yesterday led on a tour of the waste management facility in Harare by Geo Pomona chief executive officer and executive chairman Dr Dilesh Nguwaya.
In an interview after the tour, Mrs Matava said Masvingo was facing waste management related challenges which the local authority was working on addressing, hence the visit to Geo Pomona.
“We have got issues that are affecting Masvingo as a whole. First and foremost, we have got environmental issues which are around waste management.
“So as a city, we are currently using a dump site where we are dumping our waste, but because of the environmental concerns that are arising from the dump site, we want to decommission the dump site so that we can move to the engineered landfill.
“So already we have started on the engineering landfill, so we have decided to visit Pomona so that we can have insights on how they are dealing with the issues of waste management and how they are running the landfill,” she said.
Mrs Matava said they had learnt a lot during their visit and were now going back to the drawing board to deliberate on how best they can address waste management issues in Masvingo.
“So that is the reason why we have come to Pamona, to have an appreciation and we have seen quite a lot of how to run the dump site, the landfill.
“And from here, I think we are going to go back and sit down and try to arrest all the issues that we have in terms of waste management.
“We are going to deliberate on the issues that we have seen. There are much more issues that we want Geo Pomona to help us,” she said.
In a separate interview, Dr Nguwaya said the sorting plant at the waste management facility had undergone hot commissioning, adding that 150 workers would be employed at the said plant alone.
“The plant has already been hot commissioned by the Turkish engineers before they left the country.
“As you can see there is a lot of work that needs to be done here, we are going to employ 150 workers who are going to work at this sorting plant only,” he said.
Dr Nguwaya said Geo Pomona was now setting its sights on the waste to energy plant, with works set to commence in June.
“Now we are now focusing on the waste to energy plant and we will commence our works in June,” he said.
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