{"id":5217,"date":"2019-09-10T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T07:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"uganda-offers-lessons-in-tapping-the-power-of-solid-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/10\/uganda-offers-lessons-in-tapping-the-power-of-solid-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Offers Lessons In Tapping The Power Of Solid Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/shuaib-lwasa-779709\"><strong>Shuaib Lwasa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In places where municipalities continuously fail to collect and manage waste, authorities tend to concentrate their efforts on a few areas. These are often in a city\u2019s wealthier sections. Informal settlements remain under-served or are not served at all. And so, waste accumulates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kampala, the capital of Uganda, is home to 1.5 million residents. It is growing at an annual rate of 5.1%. The expansion of cities like Kampala makes service provision difficult; infrastructure is poor and so are the roads that connect its neighborhoods.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2071-1050\/9\/2\/194\/htm\">About 87% of Kampala\u2019s residents<\/a>\u00a0live in informal houses; 78% have access to electricity in their houses and only 17% have piped water.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/277478476_Optimization_of_waste_collection_and_disposal_in_Kampala_city\">An estimated 1,300 tons per day of waste<\/a>\u00a0are produced in the city and about 50% is collected and transported to the landfill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this context, the absence of waste management and sanitation has led\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mistraurbanfutures.org\/en\/publication\/rogue-urbanism-emergent-african-cities\">residents to come up with solutions<\/a> to make useful products out of organic waste materials. One such innovation is producing energy briquettes from both organic and human wastes, or fecal sludge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uganda-offers-lessons-in-tapping-the-power-of-solid-waste-119728\">Continue\nreading\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shuaib Lwasa In places where municipalities continuously fail to collect and manage waste, authorities tend to concentrate their efforts on a few areas. These are often in a city\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}