NAIROBI SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

The idea come as a result of an observation I made that solid waste haphazardly dumped without proper care. I have also seen a lot of companies collecting household, hotel, restaurant garbage yet the exercise is not effective enough hence exposing Nairobi people to health hazards. Most notable is the Eastland area with lots of business malls and high population areas.

The level of waste dumping is very high that create a hill of solid waste, in the pretense of collecting plastic and other materials for recycle, the area is hibernating place for criminals putting the residence around at risk.

As per the report of the meteorological department and other scientist heavy El-nino is expected in Kenya and other part of the world, at these juncture the new constructed roads and drainage patterns may get blocked due to waste swift by the rain to the drainage system thus the resultant flooding and damaging of newly constructed tarmac roads.

Mosquitoes as well as other parasitic insects breed in the area where waste is dumped and floods, will be high risks of insect disease transmissions for the people living around the area.

Households, hotels, hospitals and other business centers must have better site of keeping waste for easy collection of concern authority. Nairobi could have been greener and cleaner but the inhabitants have no sense of ownership in their environment. There is an urgent need for dumping facilities on every street of the Eastland’s areas. The business community they have to be enlightened on how to manage the waste from their business goods since the area is considered as a competitive business area. There is a need for training, participatory hygiene and sanitary transformation (PHAST).

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