To-promoters of the Imperial International Business City (IIBC), the Elegushi Royal Family (ERF), has said the IIBC is designed to align with the Cleaner LagosIntiative (CLI) of Lagos State in line with the new global order.
According to the royal family, the IIBC, on completion, will have facilities to cater for its own sewage and water control to ensure that the dream of making it a smart city is fully actualised.
ERF head, Oba Saheed Elegushi, disclosed this in a chat with The Nation, after an inspection tour of the site with the city’s project consultant on infrastructure development, Messers Mott MacDonald Limited of London, United Kingdom.
According to Oba Elegushi, sewage control is a huge task in any city. This, he explained, is the reason for the promoters’ determination to effectively manage waste and reduce its attendant burden on the new development. One of the strategies to be used is by providing recycling facilities in the city.
“The waste strategy places emphasis on collection of waste, segregation and treating this via appropriate facilities. We have also realised that by installing Biodigestors, we can supplement energy by providing supplemental generation from organic waste. This is very critical for the IIBC sustainability,” he said. The Royal Father further said the city’s managers will not relent in educating and imploring residents to operate and maintain clean, efficient waste facilities, as it contributes to the local economy.
Oba Elegushi also explained that waste sources segregation will be encouraged within the residential, commercial and public sections of the city through education and awareness. The wastes, he explained, will be segregated into at least two streams in both residential and commercial properties- that is, recyclables and residual waste.
“The emphasis will be on developing a sustained message that everyone should respect and take pride in participating. Waste storage areas will be kept away from publicly accessible areas and locked to ensure that access is restricted to the facility management teams and others approved trained members of staff,” he explained.
He continued: “There will also be waste collection by a single collector. This will be enhanced through building twin waste chute system for low and high rise buildings; door to door collection; concierge system and a dedicated central storage area.
“Other innovative solutions may include for waste management in the IIBC include provision of Material Recycling Facility (MRF) with manual picking and sorting lines; Anaerobic Digester for processing food waste to produce gas or electricity; or vessel composting to produce compost for sale or use on the island for landscape purposes; Small-Scale energy from waste incineration of residual waste after segregating the waste.
Mott MacDonald team leader, Stuart Croucher, further explained that waste generated from the city will be split into three different streams for treatment and disposal for instance, adding that dry recyclables wastes will be further segregated, using MRF with manual picking and sorting lines. With this, he explained, products such as plastic, glass, metals and paper can be potentially sold back into the market.
In dealing with organic wastes, Croucher said two options will be available: using anaerobic digester, makes the waste to be fermented to produce methane where it is burned to produce electricity or be used as cooking gas. The remainder of the waste will be transformed into a Digestate where it can be used as compost. The second option is Vessel Composting, a technology that will provide the city with high quality compost to be used internally or exported off island.
Croucher assured that portable water will be provided by the city management company. To ensure that water shortage is never experienced, potable water treatment plant and Deep Well Borehole with several pumping stations will be constructed. Water, he said, will be pumped from water treatment plant, using circular main which spurs off to each development area and to individual properties.
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