Effectiveness of solid waste management strategies to the promotion of clean environment :

Abstract

Modern cities consume a great deal of resources including energy, water, food and raw materials and they also generate large quantities of waste products. The success with which a city can manage these wastes is one indicator of the ability of the organizations within the city to work together to solve major urban environmental problems like bad odor, and blockage of the drainage systems. However solid waste collection has not been so effective and this has been attributed to inadequate resource allocation towards waste collection, low solid waste management service coverage, mismanagement of equipment and the entire collection process. The study was carried in Kiwatule where a sample of 60 respondents was taken. The general objective was to provide information to Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and non-governmental organizations (NGO's) on those cost effective interventions to the accumulating solid waste found in Kiwatule parish through finding out the reasons for the amount and composition of solid waste generated reasons for the community’s preference of different solid waste management services available to residents, households' willingness to pay for improved solid waste collection and compares causes for the effectiveness of different existing solid waste collection, transfer and disposal services available to the residents. Questionnaires and interviews were used to gather data from residents, and key informants. The private sector is more effective than the public sector which was attributed to the private sector provision of services like storage containers, timely and fixed collection time tables. Given the situation of open competition for clients involving both public and private sector in it is possible the public sector can operate effectively if they start commercial services officially like their private sector counterparts. This calls for a formal public-private partnership where the public and private sector can work together.