THE Zambian embassy in Stockholm, Sweden has organised an inter-active business event aimed at raising awareness around the cardinal issue of efficient waste management.

Zambia’s ambassador to Sweden Rev. Edith Mutale says her mission in Stockholm has organised event in order to provide links between Zambian local authorities and Swedish experts both from the private and public sector, on how Zambia can turn its fortunes around what is normally seen as garbage or waste into a profitable commodity.

“The event has attracted three Swedish institutions that are experts in waste management and one which is in water purification,” said Rev. Mutale.

Local Government and Housing Minister Dr. John Phiri will lead a delegation of senior technocrats and private business promoters to the Stockholm event she disclosed.

“Sweden is viewed internationally as a country that has “run out of garbage; while this is a positive – almost enviable – predicament for a country to be facing, Sweden now has to search for rubbish outside of its borders to generate its waste-to-energy incineration program. Its Scandinavian neighbour Norway is now shipping about 80,000 tons of refuse annually to fuel Sweden with outside waste.” she noted.

The Zambian embassy is hosting the event with the corporation of the influential Stockholm Group World Trade Investments (Stockholm Group) that is already running an awareness on the subject inviting broader local and international participation.