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Namibia: Ohorongo Cement’s plant at Walvis Bay has had an alternative fuels substitution rate of 40% for the last six months of 2018. Local recycling company Rent-A-Drum said that it has been supplying waste fuels to the plant, according to the Namibia Economist newspaper. As well as fuels from domestic waste the plant is using wood chips and charcoal dust in its kiln.

Namibia: Environment minister Pohamba Shifeta has inaugurated Namibia’s first solid recovered waste plant in Windhoek. The US$15.7m unit is a joint-venture between local company Rent-A-Drum and Ohorongo Cement, a subsidiary of Germany’s Schwenk Zement, according to the Xinhua News Agency. Rent-A-Drum will collect more than 12,000t of non-recyclable waste material that will be converted into alternative fuel for use by Ohorongo Cement. The waste plant has created 60 jobs.