Kenya Young Greens Kiambu County Chapter

1. Kenya Young Greens Kiambu County Chapter Presented by Nandoya Duncan Integrated solid waste management

2. Solid waste management Integrated solid waste management includes source reduction, source separation, recycling and reuse as well as materials recovery.

3. Cont……. The waste materials that remain should be safely disposed into a sanitary landfill. Up to 2010 a study was done, no Kenyan city had a sanitary landfill and solid waste piles along inner city streets was a common sight in Nairobi.

4. Cont.. • This study found that the solid waste in Juja consisted of 80% food and other organic wastes, 10% plastics, 2% metal and glass, and 3% mixed refuse. The waste had a very low level of toxic substances. The majority of the households produced less than 3 kg per day, which translated to less than 0.5 kg/person/day.

5. Cont…. • JKUAT-SWMM, a solid waste management model developed in this study, suggested that if 25% of the population would do composting using household compost digesters of 288 L, the area of a disposal site required for 1 million people would be 16 ha The identified site was on fallow land that received an annual rainfall of 600-800 mm..

6. Cont……. A waste disposal facility in Juja Farm could cater for most of the towns in the area of interest, including Juja, Mangu, Kimunyu, Gatundu, Thika, Ruiru and Kahawa The landfill would be accessible to institutions such as Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Juja, Mount Kenya University in Thika, Kilimambogo Teachers’ College in Kilimambogo, and numerous secondary schools in the area.

7. Challenges I waste management • Lack of adequate information in waste management. • Site planning and design • Waste management strategic plan • Financial capacity building • Lack of good will from the stakeholders • Hazardous waste management • Emissions reduction of financing • Landfill • Livestock, slaughter waste and carcass disposal • lack of adequate Resource

8. Impacts • Improve livelihoods • Improved security since youth will be occupied • Employment opportunities • Knowledge enhanced in waste management • Reduction in the waste production and disposal. • Cleaner environments which will improve on the health of the people living in urban centre's especially the informal settlement • Eradication of poverty through income generation activities i.e. garbage collection , recycling , reuse .

9. Results • 10000 trees planted in all areas where garbage is remove • 5000 young women/men and young mothers trained in waste management • 500 jobs created for the youth between ages of below. • Cleaner environments in Kiambu county.

10. Procedure applied Sorting of solid waste (organic, plastics,metals,glasses, papers etc) procedure- divide the heap in four quarters at the height of 0.4 meters, take the diameter ,separate the opposite side A& B out .The two remaining opposite, creates the second heap. Repeat the procedure three times. Sorting starts on the fourth heap,..which is equivalent to 40 kgs. The weighing of each category begins after sorting ends.

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