Abstract
The existing systems of solid waste management (SWM) in the city of Dar es Salaam suffer from the lack of a good plan and appropriate approach for their sustainability. This empirical study explores the problem of solid waste (SW) in Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It highlights the impacts of applying economic instruments (EIs) on SWM with much emphasis on the relationship between socio-economic characteristics of the communities and their willingness to use such instruments or pay for the service. The study involved 217 households whereby, questionnaires, key informants’ interview, focus group discussion and observation were used for data collection.
Highlights
The existing solid waste management (SWM) systems in many cities of the developing countries suffer from the lack of appropriate plans and approaches for implementation
The general questions that one may ask here are; to what extent has such economic instruments (EIs) application helped to manage solid waste in the City? Are these instruments accepted and is the community willing to pay for the services? This study provides empirical evidence on this area of inquiry
As the information obtained from the field shows, solid waste and general environmental sanitary is a problem in Kinondoni Municipality at the study area and is of more concern in squatter and unplanned settlements
Summary
The existing solid waste management (SWM) systems in many cities of the developing countries suffer from the lack of appropriate plans and approaches for implementation. The proposed measures and strategies include, inter alia, ensuring that SW are not dumped on or around these sensitive habitats and installing adequate SW disposal facilities. These are to be facilitated by introducing different economic instruments (EIs) that encourage the 3R (recovery, reuse and recycle); the way for sustainable SWM. In all these strategies there have been a number of challenges limiting their implementation. Quite often waste are dumped in open spaces, along and across streets, in drains, water bodies and such similar places; causing mortality to marine biodiversity, poor aesthetic on recreation and tourism potential areas and hazardous environments for navigation direct and/ or indirectly health problems in different ways Ntakamulenga [2]
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