An uber-ization model to waste management in Africa's busiest cities through an App, interconnected trash cans and sanitation campaigns.
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After a clean-up activity in Jinja Municipality , Eastern Uganda, that was organized by a friend, Rose Mary Nakame (the founder and CEO) felt that they had not offered a sustainable solution. And with each passing day, jumping or passing by heaps of rubbish in Kampala city, the passion to create a sustainable solution that addresses the waste management crisis grew thus the birth of AFRIwaste.
Namata Teo (2009) reported that domestic waste in suburbs of Kampala, Uganda for example, Kawempe and Rubaga divisions, was mainly openly dumped (62%) along road sides contributing to about 60% of waste generated not being collected(oag,2016). Other symptoms of this crisis include: passengers throwing rubbish out of car windows, heaps of waste in drainage channels and alongside homes releasing an offensive. This poor waste disposal, collection problem stems from untimely collection of waste, an ever-increasing urban population, lack of public awareness and negligence to play part in keeping the city clean.
Consequently, this public health disaster has exposed lives of city dwellers to the risk of environmental and health related problems for example diarrhoeal diseases, floods and air pollution (URN). In addition, it’s costing Uganda an estimated $17million/year in treatment of sanitation diseases which trickles down to families keeping them in a viscous cycle of poverty.
We are here to address this.
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