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WASTE MANAGEMENT IN KIGALI CITY |
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The waste management in Kigali City like other urban centers in developing country is still a challenging phenomenon even if Kigali is used to be a cleaned city. Kigali city is the Capital of Rwanda, started in 1907 as a colonial outpost initially supposed to inhabit by at least three hundred people. Currently, Kigali city is inhabited by 870,127 people according to 2006 population projections and over one million during the day. The government has established different strategies to overcome challenges of waste management in Kigali city such as putting boxes on streets, roads in the town, and a home waste management system, etc.
In collaboration with different companies the government has established the methods of taking wastes at homes once per week and owners of those wastes have to pay some money for each sac of domestic wastes. Homes, restaurants and even on streets wastes are put together in appropriate boxes and sacs in order to be taken to the waste land. It is forbidden to put wastes anywhere in streets, roads, and to wash one or double hands on streets. Toilets have been put at each corner of Kigali city. Once you get taken doing these you get a deserve punishment.
The car brings those wastes at a waste land in a rural site of Kigali city. Before we had a waste land at Nyanza in Kicukiro district in Kigali city. As the population of Kigali city grows quickly and the city expand, the waste land of Nyanza has been found in the center of the town this was harmful to the nearby population. So it has been removed at another place far to the town.
At that place wastes are classed in different categories in order to be recycled. There are different companies who recycle organic waste into fertilizer, charcoal, plastics into useful plastic materials and glasses are not yet begun to be recycled.
Government and citizens of Kigali city work together to resolve the problem of waste management to keep the city cleaned and visitors coming to Kigali City use to enjoy the way Rwanda uses to manager wastes especially in Kigali city. This photo is taken in Kigali City
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24 Comments
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 27-08-2013 19:07
All should work as team for the success of this project.
Posted 15-06-2013 21:39
Thanks for this skilled article.
Posted 12-04-2013 23:56
Nice to note the joint effeort by people and Govt in Rawanda...would love to read more such reports in future...thx for sharing this.
Posted 07-04-2013 20:22
inspiring to know that this city is giving much attention to environmental concerns
Posted 04-04-2013 22:04
thanks for the article,people and governments from other countries should learn from this.
Posted 04-04-2013 20:10
The act must have been done. Really great movement for green Kigali city.
Thank you for sharing the vivid report from Rwanda. :D
Posted 01-04-2013 18:11
nice...
Posted 31-03-2013 23:32
a nice report .. a news news about Kigali City
Posted 31-03-2013 22:51
great report
Posted 31-03-2013 22:49
great one :))
Posted 31-03-2013 22:38
Thanks for the report.
Posted 31-03-2013 19:26
A good report
Posted 31-03-2013 18:14
Great articLe .,
Posted 31-03-2013 17:05
"Government and citizens of Kigali city work together to resolve the problem". This is the main key point to solve any kinds of problem because together people always stronger. Thanks Yvette Umurungi for your article.
Posted 31-03-2013 16:55
nice report from you keep it up.
Posted 31-03-2013 16:40
Yvette: Cool! the toilets have been put at each corner of the city. Anyway, how long is the distance of each toilet?
Posted 31-03-2013 16:21
Thank you for sharing this
Posted 31-03-2013 16:07
Great to manage waste together
Posted 31-03-2013 14:34
Nice know the Waste Management of Kigali city,
The system is helping to ensure it's cleanliness and busty.
Posted 31-03-2013 14:31
great.
Posted 31-03-2013 13:20
We should work together to present better environment
Posted 31-03-2013 11:41
Nice report from you
Posted 31-03-2013 11:40
nice report.
Posted 31-03-2013 09:18