Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A land dispute in Lugazi Municipality has affected the disposal of garbage putting residents lives at risk. The municipality has for the last three years been dumping waste at Kakubansiri in Kawolo division until July 2019, when Shakur Sayid Mubarak, a resident at Lugazi …
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Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Mbarara Municipality are protesting a move by the authorities to introduce garbage collection fees. The fees recently introduced by the authorities vary between 500 and 10,000 shillings depending on the quantity of garbage generated from a homestead. The money in question is paid …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several markets in the city are choking on uncollected garbage putting the health of the traders and customers at risk. The markets are characterized by too much garbage that piles up which brings about bad smell in the markets. At Kalerwe market, the sight …
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The incentives that must be given to people to minimise the amount of garbage that reaches landfills Project Syndicate | STEPHEN NWALOZIRI | As a child growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, in the late 1990s, I remember women roaming through my community and chanting in Yoruba, “onigo de o! Anra …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The world is going to need a bigger trash can. A pooling of plastic waste floating in the ocean between California and Hawaii contains at least 79,000 tons of material spread over 1.6 million square kilometers, researchers report March 22 in `Scientific Reports’. That’s the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Life in the slums of Manila can be incredibly difficult, and putting food on the table every day is a big challenge. That’s what makes “pagpag” so popular. This term usually refers to the dust one shakes out of clothing or carpets, but in …
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