The Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill has been receiving an average of 350 tonnes of waste on a daily basis—more than a hundred tonnes over initial expectations—and Project Manager Walter Willis has warned that the situation will shorten the lifespan of the first cell at the facility.
During a tour of the facility last week, aimed at giving the media and solid waste management stakeholders a firsthand look at the facility’s operations, blamed the increase in garbage disposal on the closure of the Mandela dump site and other illegal dump sites.
The Haags Bosch facility is designed to have four cells, each with a life-span of 10 years, to cater for 250 tonnes of waste per day, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA), which said the facility caters for waste from 15 NDCs and Georgetown. Since it opened in
