N’SILA ZERO Project – PNZ015/FSG

In Mozambique and most specifically in the city of Maputo, the management of urban solid waste is an environmental problem but often a social problem. The fast urbanization, the growth of the neighbourhoods without any basic service, the internal unplanned migration flows amongst other factors, have been challenging the City of Maputo to face new realities. Challenged by the growing demand of the super population, the city has been searching for ways to solve the problem of solid waste management and it’s biggest issue is the lack of financial, material and human means to do so.

Faced with this situation, the Sérgio Gago foundation offers to develop an integrated and innovating approach to the management of solid waste in the periphery neighbourhoods in the city of Maputo which currently don’t have adequate system for garbage disposal. The project, called NSILA ZERO, is an integrated project which falls within the strategy of urban solid waste management and follows the principle of 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle).

To answer this demand and contribute to the smart solid waste management, FSG created Basisa Ecotxova, with an internationally patented model.

Main Objective

• Develop an integrated and innovating approach to the solid waste management in the neighbourhoods which have a deficient system for removal of waste and its final destination.Develop an integrated and innovating approach to the solid waste management in the neighbourhoods which have a deficient system for removal of waste and its final destination.

Specific Objectives

• Improve the system and mechanisms for removal and transportation of solid waste in the neighbourhoods in the periphery of the city of Maputo;
• Restore the dignity of the trash pickers, particularly the women, through vocational training and recycling of reusable waste.

Maximize the use of the urban solid waste, contributing to the reduction of open air dump sites.