"Lets Talk Trash" | Published by Peace Pen Communications | October 2013
"Lets Talk Trash". Solid waste management is a major problem world-over and in Kenya offers several challenges from clogged drainage and sewers, waterborne diseases like typhoid, cholera and diarrhoea, increased upper respiratory diseases from open burning of the garbage to malaria. Several incidents in recent weeks around environmental compliance – or the lack thereof – have brought environmental concerns on to the public arena. Recently, the National Environment Management Authority’s investigators unearthed a scandal at the port of Mombasa involving the illegal importation of a 40-foot container load of solid waste from the UK ...
