Creating a landfill is a developmental project that the government can put in place to reduce the amount of waste that is generated in Lusaka. Currently Lusaka province has only one landfill based in Chunga which accomodates for a population of approximately one million seven hundred and forty three (1. 743) people from the last census held in 2010 of which has now increased (Central Statistical Office, 2012). Waste generation is on the rise and the waya to tackle with the rapid growth in accumulating wasye is minimal. Waste management has been the center od discussion for most environmentalists and also local governing  odies. There are several ways of handling waste but the most conventional method of waste management is a landfill. A landfill basically refers to a dumping up of waste in some unused tract of land and letting them decay on their own. 

The primary advantage of a landfill is that the trash does not pile up around people and does nor create worse health problems as ir rots and attracts pests which can carry disease. A well engineered landfill can greatly reduce potential effects on the environment. It is better to have a landfill than just throwing the trash in a pile somewhere which is done in many places. Most of the times, waste which is generated has to be transported to some place in order to ensure waste does not harm humans. Having a landfill that is closw to the locality of any region can thous reduce cost od exporting the waste. 

The local government can develop ideal techniques to utilize the energy given out by the waste. Wastes in landfills give out gases like methane and carbon dioxide  when they get decomposed automatically. This gas can then be used by landfill planre to generate energy. The gases evolved by the landfills can be trapped in by rge machinery of the power generation plants, wherein the gas can be used to move the turbines which are coupled to the generators and further connected to the transformers. This happens to be a good way to utilize waste. 

Despite the positives of landfills, the safety provided by landfills is wuite an issue to discuss. While most of the other waste control techniques are known for the large amount of dirt they create, landfills happen to be the safest ones. Incinerators for example ,can generate heavy toxins as some of the wadtw do contain toxic materials. This is not at all a good option when it comes to safety. 

In addition, rain water can often fall on the landfills. The landfills contain waste which has harmful toxins. When these toxins mix up with water, they tend to flow in a fluidic manner which can be a very serious problem to deal with. This combination is commonly known as a leachate. Leachate can seep into the top layer of the soil and in fact even percolate down to affect groundwater and other water bodies and hence harm the ecosystem in many ways. 

Since the landfills are open in nature, they are always posing a threat of polluting the environment. The trucks which carry the waste to the land fill site often generate serious traffic on their way to the site of disposal. This is the reason why people living near by often register complaints. The trucks are generally old and often it is seen that they drop off alittle bit of waste here and there when moving and cause alot of noise pollution. 

The value attached to a landfill cannot be quantified in terms of mlney but there is need to come up with the value of impacts in terms of actions of marginal social benefits. This means there is need to gauge how people in Lusaka will be without a new landfill.  Once people are aware of the effects that poor waste management has on health and that of the environment at large, they tend to value the existence of landfills where the wasted generated can be properly managed.