KCCA will over the next five years

KCCA will over the next five years focus on:• target to increase solid waste collection to over 90% by 2017• Increase the number of garbage skips and waste bins across the City;• Increase the number of garbage trucks to serve all the urban divisions• Roll out of the planned comprehensive waste handling and disposal system that will include involvement of the private sector;• Specify a hierarchy of collection, sorting and disposal facilities which promotes sorting at source, diversion to recycling as early in the process as possible, and minimisation of collection and transport costs;• Increased awareness campaign on waste management;• Undertake initiatives to convert the waste to energy and other uses;• Expansion and Improved Management of the Solid waste landfills.• Aquistion of a second solid waste landfill