
Waste management in kampala Uganda remains a main problem with about 28,000 tons of waste collected and delivered to Kitezi landfill poorly managed. Kampala capital city (KCCA) records show that this represents approximately 40/ of the waste generated in the city. The remaining uncollected waste is normally dumped I’m unauthorized sites causing health and environmental problems .
Human activities create waste, but it’s the way in which there wastes are handled, stored, collected, and disposed of that can pose a risk to the environment and public health. In places with intense human activities such as urban centers, appropriate and safe sold waste management is of great importance in providing healthy living conditions for residents. Although many Governments in developing countries acknowledge this fact, many municipalities and cities including Kampala struggle to provide even the most basic services .
Kampala Capital City Authority that is mandated by the Local Government Act of 1997 to provide solid waste management services collects waste from households, market areas, hospitals and city center areas and dumps it at Kitezi Landfill site located 12Km from the city center. However, people living near the landfill site have complained that this landfill has made their place uninhabitable and that their land has lost value these conflicts stem from bad Oder, leachate (that pollutes water resources), scattering of waste from dumping sites by wind and scavengers like Marabou storks, and other nuisances such as vermin, mosquitoes and flies.
Although landfilling was regarded as an economic and readily available means of municipal solid waste disposal in developing countries ( Mwiganga and Kansiime 2005), high land prices as a result of rising populations and incomes in these areas have greatly reduced it’s economic attractiveness. Landfills are recognized as a major source of anthropogenic methane emissions and an important contributor to global warming, accounting for up to 19/ of methane emissions I’m the world ( Kumar et al., 2094) This implies that water management by landfill disposal is an option that is not sustainable, especially in the face of environmental awareness and concern. It is therefore important to identify other, more sustainable waste management methods for waste generated in Kampala.
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