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Municipal Solid Waste Management in Yaoundé City: Generation, Storage, Collection and Transportation

by | 13-01-2017 03:46 recommendations 0

Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is one of the critical environmental challenges of rapid urban development facing the developing countries including Cameroon. Solid waste arising from human domestic, social and industrial activities is increasing in quantity and variety as a result of growing population, rising standards of living and development of technology. The need to manage this increasing waste in an environmentally effective, technologically feasible, economically affordable and socially acceptable manner is a problem faced by all nations of the world today. Solid waste generated in Yaoundé varies in quantities, types, humidity and density, according to the days of the week and seasons as well as between various sources such as residential zones, industrial areas, institutions and commercial places. Yaoundé household survey results and field experience show that, but for a few classic bins, many containers used for the collection and storage of household waste are made from recycled materials. The prominent ones are old baskets (76.7%), plastic bags (11.6%), tins and cans (8.2%), and to a lesser extent, cartons and baskets. Further analysis show that only 68 out of 103 sampled containers (66%) had some form of cover over them. There was also a spatial variation in cover provision by households with Bastos and Cite Verte having 50%, Efoulan 38.5% and Nvog Ada 22%. As we all know plastic is polluting the environment so we recommend the use of cartons. Waste produced at the households, markets and institutions such as offices and schools is primarily moved to a secondary official waste collection facility or illegal disposed. Various groups are involved in the primary MSWM in Yaoundé and they use different methods for transferring the waste to the official waste collection site. Yet their work is not sufficient and to avoid pollution the government has put in place a structure called HYSACAM whose work is to collect all e refuse. Despite their work, we need to also take actions and to keep our environment clean, we need: the help of External Support Agencies (ESAs), to develop new waste management units etc.

 

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9 Comments

  • says :
    thanks for sharing
    Posted 07-02-2018 10:04

  • says :
    good report
    Posted 07-02-2018 10:03

  • says :
    Thanks for sharing and reference please!
    Posted 25-01-2017 04:12

  • says :
    Thks Adam but our main challenge is the absence of policy
    Posted 17-01-2017 23:23

  • Adam Zhou says :
    Proper management and policy enforcement in a national level should be observed and implemented. Really great statistics in the article, and hopefully more work is to be done in the future
    Posted 16-01-2017 21:46

  • says :
    You guys are right. Thank you
    Posted 16-01-2017 20:07

  • says :
    Thanks for sharing, Tchaptchet!
    Posted 15-01-2017 23:40

  • Rohan Kapur says :
    Solid waste management is a big issue & there is a huge recycling potential in the same. All efforts must be made in this direction to achieve success.
    Posted 14-01-2017 03:45

  • prayash pathak says :
    A good system of waste collection and disposal is indeed a basic need of any country. Without this proper disposal of waste is not possible.
    Posted 13-01-2017 18:36

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