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Original project description

ALMODO, established in 2005, is a sustainable solid waste management system suitable for lower income urban areas where it offers training and waste management services to municipalities and civil societies. It collects, centralises and ecologically recovers waste which is then transformed into products useful for the local community such as school slate, paving stones, bricks, latrines, organic fertilisers or combustibles.
ALMODO is innovative because the products are made from waste at the source and the equipment and process do not require expertise, and can therefore be used by anyone. ALMODO targets especially low income communities who suffer from poor sanitation in their living environment and from low purchasing power.
ALMODO improves the living environment and public health in cities by tackling sanitation issues, providing a cleaner environment and reducing landfill gas emission at dumping sites. Moreover, the production process increasingly uses renewable energy. The products substitute normal goods that impact climate change through deforestation, industrialisation and chemical fertilisation.
ALMODO not only contributes to better living conditions for the poorest population, but it reduces municipal costs for solid waste management. Furthermore it contributes towards alternative income for the population since local people collect and recycle solid waste against remuneration. The recycled products that are sold by ALMODO also cost less than ordinary products, thus increasing families’ purchasing power.
As Clean Development Mechanism project, ALMODO’s earnings through the reduction of carbon emissions will be shared.

Current project updates

Last updated: 13 May 2011

Launching of ALMODO environmental education center: The center promotes environmental attitudes at peri urban areas as well as in school and in some urban community centers.

Growth plans description

• Establish ALMODO as an operating urban waste management system.
• Create an ALMODO pilot plant that will serve as training plant for private and public actors of waste management and recovery and which will treat 40 tons of waste per day.
• Commercialise the products on small scale.
• Show the feasibility of a completely new waste management system, with a view to becoming the appropriate social solution in sub-Saharan African cities.

Current Needs

• Assistance with the capacity building of partners involved in equipment development.
• Assistance with project administration and partnership management capacity building.
• Support in developing a network of contacts with institutions that develop technologies in waste management and recovery.
• Financial assistance to enable all marginalised areas to benefit from the project.

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