One of the #TransformFreetown Sanitation targets is “to ensure that at least 60% of solid and liquid waste is safely collected, managed and disposed of”. In order to address the liquid waste element of that target, with funding from FCDO and with GOAL SL as implementing partner, FCC built and started operating Freetown’s first ever facael sludge treatment plant in Kingtom in 2021. Our next step was to experiment with processing the sludge into products with value.

In 3 years we have moved from the unhygienic and environmentally damaging practice of vacuum trucks discharging facael sludge directly onto the ground at Kingtom dumpsite, to safely collecting and treating the facael sludge within the plant, to now producing waste to value products – fertilizer,briquettes and biogas!