Waste Disposal. The problems created by landfill sites.

2. Problems of waste disposal

• Waste is being dumped in the wrong culverts: the black and green culverts both have a mixture of food, metal, glass and plastic.
• Animals (e.g. marabou storks and mongooses) get into the culverts and extract food and food contaminated burnable waste.
• There is no separate place for disposal of non-burnable waste (metal and glass) – this is currently mixed with food and burnable waste.
• Some culverts are full and waste is spilling out.

These problems result in a highly unsightly, unhealthy environment for visitors, residents, and wildlife

3. How is waste disposal being improved for the future?

• Sustainable installation and upgrading of waste management facilities
• Extending sewage networks
• Set up agency to monitor waste
• Classification: now classified into inert, non inert non hazardous and hazardous
• The need for a landfill liner and geological barrier on the base and sides of all non inert non hazardous and hazardous landfill sites
• The requirement that all waste is pre-treated before being land filled
• The requirement to have Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) for all land filled waste
• The banning of liquid, explosive, corrosive, oxidising flammable and clinical wastes
• A requirement for a 60-year aftercare provision