Improvement of Medical and Hazardous Waste Management in Nairobi
On 20 November 2024: The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been providing the Kenyan Government with a concessional grant aid under the name of the “Project for the Construction of Medical Waste and Hazardous Waste Appropriate Processing Plant in Nairobi”. In this project, ETA as environmental expert has been offering technical services to the Kenyan Ministry of Environment, Climate Change & Forestry. In this context, ETA gave an advisory consultation to Dr. Eng. Festus K. Ng’eno, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change & Forestry about the construction of a medical and hazardous waste incinerator in Nairobi County. The meeting was also attended by Mr. Mamo Mamo, Director General, National Environmental Management Authority; and Ms. Linda Kosgei, Director, of Multilateral Environmental Agreement among other senior government officers.
Awareness Raising Events for and Handover of the Plastic Recycling in Kenya
On 23 and 25 January and 10 & 17 July 2024: Under a private and public partnership scheme, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) entrusted Tobe Shoji Co., Ltd. and ETA et al. to construct a pilot plant of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Juja, Kiambu County, Kenya. The team of Tobe Shoji provided a series of intensive operational and maintenance training to the JKUAT’s staff and associated operators. In order to raise awareness of the importance of recycling, ETA organized three workshops and study tours about the said pilot plant targeting institutions both in the public and private sectors in Kenya. After all those activities, ETA assisted Tobe Shoji and JICA Kenya Office administratively to hand over the ownership of the plant to JKUAT (see the hand-over event).