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Algeria: La Société des Ciments de Tébessa has commissioned a sewage treatment unit to provide alternative fuels for its plant, according to the Algeria Press Service. The company operates a 0.5Mt/yr plant at Elma Labiod in Tébessa Province.

Algeria: Groupe des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA) has started testing processing waste-derived fuels at its Meftah cement plant. The pilot project will handle waste fuels and sewage sludge, according to the Algeria Press Service. Testing started in October 2017 and it will continue until 2021 before the plant starts to use alternative fuels commercially. The company also hopes to spread the use of alternative fuels to other cement plants in the country following the pilot stage. The plant is operated by Société des ciments de la Mitidja (SCMI-Meftah), a subsidiary of GICA.

Algeria: Minister of Water Resources and Environment Abdelkader Ouali has encouraged investors to enter the waste recycling market. The minister said that the industry could be worth up to Euro310m during a tour of a waste treatment project at the Lafarge Algeria cement plant at Oggaz.

Ouali also praised Lafarge’s initiative to eliminate wastes through the furnaces of the cement works. These operations have allowed the elimination, over the past two years, of 106t of expired medication, collected in 12 provinces. They have been carried out in cooperation with the ministry of Environment and the Algerian national union of pharmacies and dispensaries.