Following the individual work on solid waste management in the previous session, this session was a workshop that focuses on case study of kibera - the largest slum in Kenyan. In our team, based on the case study provided by the speaker, we identified the major sources of waste in the slum. After studying the problems, we propose short and long term solutions taking into consideration the social, economic and environmental sustainability of the solutions.
Major Wastes
a. Bio wastes
b. plastic wastes
c. flying toilets
d. wastes from manufacturing industries
e. wastes from medical facilities
The first big step towards the solution for these problems is to identify and separate the wastes so as to make them easily manageable. Other solutions were proposed as shown below
1. Short term solutions
Under this category we included:
Land filling
Cleanliness campaigning
replacing plastic bags with degradable ones
2. Long term solutions
Waste minimization
Building waste processing and recycling facilities
Building public toilets
Raising community awareness
Improving the city plan
We hope that with step by step implementation of the proposed solutions, it would be possible to see a better kibera in the foreseeable future.
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