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Waste as a chance - Waste recycling in Zimbabwe
Norton, a small town with 60,000 inhabitants about 40 km west of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, has no adequate waste management infrastructure. No regular waste separation system has been implemented. Approximately 85% of the households have a regular residual waste collection. The waste is however brought to the dumpsite without any treatment. For many years there was a dumpsite which had neither sealing nor treatment systems for protecting soil, groundwater or the atmosphere, therefore it was harming the environment.
Even if the dumpsite was closed last year and a new landfill with basis-sealing started to operate, the latter still wasn’t renaturated. Additionally, methods like waste burial in the backyard, littering and burning of the wastes are widespread. Health issues through emissions and transmission of pathogens are the consequences. However, the majority of the residents are aware of the problem represented by the dumping and littering and concerned about its risks. Furthermore, the unemployment rate in this area was estimated to be 95% in 2009. The idea behind the waste recycling project in Zimbabwe is therefore to help people solve the two issues at once: improving the waste disposal problem by highlighting waste as a resource with monetary value.
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| Autor: | Stefan Schmidt  Joschko Ruppersberg | |
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