Abidjan Waste Fleet Tracking and Kossihouen Weighbridges

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Abidjan's household waste goes to the Kossihouen landfill, in service since 2 November 2018 and built for about 1.25 million tonnes a year — it replaced the Akouedo dump, open since 1965 and closed in 2019. Arriving trucks cross bridge scales at the gate under ANAGED and BNETD agents, and their positions appear live on control screens at the Anguededou logistics centre west of the city; 220 to 230 trucks deliver each day. Collection and haulage are contracted to private concessionaires: Eco Eburnie and Clean Eburnie (Mota-Engil) and Ecoti SA.

Live 📅 since 2018

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

Run byANAGED (Agence Nationale de Gestion des Dechets) with concessionaires Eco Eburnie, Clean Eburnie (Mota-Engil) and Ecoti SA

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Cost40.73bn FCFA for the Kossihouen centre

📊 Impact

Ecoti SA's communications and sustainable-development director Tarek Mrabet told a Swiss reporting project in 2022 that collection had risen from no more than 35% of collectable waste in 2017, the year before the concessions started, to 75%. No independent audit of that figure has been published.

🎓 Lesson

Knowing where every truck is does not put waste in it. In June 2026, with more than 163.5bn FCFA mobilised that year for urban sanitation, the government ordered a 72-hour emergency operation that moved about 16,000 tonnes to Kossihouen and still cleared only about 100 of some 800 reported dump sites. The reasons given were disbursement delays, arrears to operators and weak contract oversight — not missing telemetry.

🌱 Environment Waste & recycling Sensors & IoT

Sources

↗ EQDA / Matthieu Henguely (independent)2022 field reportage by a Swiss journalism programme. Carries the control room: « Dans une salle du centre logistique d'Anguededou (ouest d'Abidjan), la position de chaque vehicule apparait sur les ecrans de controle en temps reel. » Also the 220-230 trucks a day at Kossihouen, the operator split (Eco/Clean Eburnie, Ecoti), and the impact figure attributed to Tarek Mrabet of Ecoti SA: « En 2017, l'annee precedant le demarrage de nos entreprises, le pourcentage de dechets collectes a Abidjan ne depassait pas 35% de ce qui etait ramassable. Aujourd'hui, nous sommes a 75% ».

↗ Abidjan.net (media)Carries the weighbridge step: « des leur arrivee, les camions tasseurs charges de dechets passent par les ponts bascules pour le pesage » under ANAGED and BNETD supervision, with an IT system for rapid data processing. Also the 1,250,000 t/year capacity (~90% of district waste), the 100-hectare site and the 40.73bn FCFA budget.

↗ Abidjan.net (media)Ministerial announcement dating the Kossihouen centre's entry into service to November 2018 (construction launched 19 March 2018), replacing the Akouedo landfill. The concession for design, construction, financing and operation went to CLEAN EBURNIE, a consortium of CLEAN BOR-CI and Mota-Engil.

↗ KOACI (media)8 June 2026. The emergency clean-up ordered by the ministry: close to 16,000 tonnes collected and hauled to Kossihouen.

↗ Connection Ivoirienne (media)18 June 2026, the counterweight. « plus de 163,5 milliards de FCFA sont mobilises en 2026 pour la salubrite urbaine a travers le Fonds de financement de la salubrite urbaine et la Taxe d'enlevement des ordures menageres », against 5,000 tonnes produced daily; the stated causes are « retards de decaissement », « arrieres de paiement envers les operateurs » and « un controle juge insuffisant de l'execution des contrats »; only about 100 of 800 reported sites were cleared inside the 72-hour deadline.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Abidjan Waste Fleet Tracking and Kossihouen Weighbridges” — Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/abidjan-waste-fleet-tracking/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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