The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has stopped providing any more refuse bins to residential areas in Lusaka and has since called on Community Based Enterprises (CBEs) to education the public on proper ways of disposing of garbage.
LCC Public Relations Officer Henry Kapata said it was not the intention of the council to put bins all over the city but to make people understand that the indiscriminate disposal of garbage was not allowed.
Mr. Kapata told ZANIS in Lusaka yesterday communities must be responsible with the way the dispose of their garbage and not rely on the local authority to provide bins.
He was reacting to complaints by some Community Based Enterprises (CBEs) which are collecting garbage in various communities.
Yesterday, a Waste Management Company of Lusaka’s Bauleni Compound complained that the lack of skip bins in the compound has led to the indiscriminately dumping of garbage in the compound.
The company also complained that the LCC has not heeded to appeals for it to distribute new skip bins to communities in the past three years.
Mr. Kapata however said it was the duty of the CBEs to educate people and bring awareness programmes on the dangers of indiscriminate dumping of garbage.
He urged the CBEs to seriously take their responsibility of making people understand the dangers of the indiscriminate dumping of garbage instead of requesting for more bins from the council.
Mr. Kapata said the number of bins that are distributed in different parts of the city depends on the population in a particular area.
He reiterated that the LCC will not give any extra bins to any area.
He said if the council distributes a lot of bins in the city, then Lusaka will be full of bins which will end up being vandalized by members of the public.
Mr. Kapata said the CBEs will not have the capacity to collect garbage from the skip bins if the bins are too many in the city.
ZANIS
#1! the first sentence in paragraph uno doesn’t sound right…just saying.
Below-par thinking…Look at the provision of bins as an opportunity u retared chap
Ba L Times chizungu namwe mwanyanya. ‘to education the public on ” this is rubish. work up writer.
So there is scientific distribution of bins!? I do not even see the adequacy of rubbish collection in Zambian towns and cities; I am always struggling to find a disposal bin when I am in Lusaka or in any town in Zambia. Windhoek, for instance, that is known as the cleanest city in Africa, does not earn that name by accident. You even find garbage collection bins on every other light lamp post! You do not have to walk anywhere to get rid of litter. What, pray, is our spokesman referring to when he equates supply to “a population of an area”???
I sympathise with the council,you have the President complaining about high levies,the President telling citizens to stop paying rates,The president allowing street vending,then how does the Council find revenue to provide these services?
HEY HANDSOME GUY HENRY KAPATA, LISTEN UP: IF YOU WANT THE CITY TO BE CLEAN, BINS HAVE TO BE SET ON EVERY 200METER SPOT AND THE COUNCIL SHOULD EMPLOY GARBAGE COLLECTORS WHO SHOULD HAVE A SCHEDULED PROGRAM. YOUR RECENT SENTIMENTS ARE ILLOGICAL.
Kapata apa watoba insamushi shobe, provide more bins if you need the city to be clean chapwa.
My brother Henry, where do you expect people to dump the rubbish that will be generated since digging of rubbish pit is not allowed. Even if it was allowed space cannot be found! Do your home work properly Lusaka city council.
Why is it the shit from Kaponyas in the streets which is confusing LCC? Bin are a must…if you have no money cut drums and modify them and distribute as many as the kaponyas cannot fill then your town will be full..look at increasing the number of toilets as well in town to stop kaponyas shiting in used opaque beer packs and bottles.
#5 spot on. this president is destructive especally to the local councils. his destructive tendencies are remind me of FTJ when Ms nawa was lusaka major. this president wants to make us believe that services are free. he makes people believe that health, education, goods and services are free. typical UNIP ideas. if we don’t wake up we’ll be behind zimbabwe again.
our child will curse us for allow characters like this PF to run the country
there is only one proven way to clean our cities. pay for services and then ask for accountability
WHY NOT JUST BUILD CONCRETE BINS ALONG THE ROADS….
He is lying.
This ridiculous to say the least. If the council cannot mobilise the community based enterprises, then who should? Grabage management is the council’s business. The current system is inappropriate where a tructor moving at 15 km/h carries 2 tons of garbage from woodlands all the way to chingwere and you expect to talk about efficiency? Let the council have a designated points where CBEs can drop the garbege and big council trucks should be the ones carting the stuff to chingwere.
Councils normally provide waste collection weekly basis in western countries.
Why does the council think its someone else’s problem?
If the councils will not fix roads and provide services what are they using the rates money on?
What’s the role of councils in Zambia? Waste managment is a responsibility of councils in developed countries. That’s why we pay Council Tax in UK. Here councils provide refuse bins to domestic homes in many areas and they also provide bin lining. They collect refuse every week.
LCC should make people pay for collecting their waste. The habit of getting things for free has retarded our development in Zambia. Waste managment is expensive in any country.
You are dead without money.
That’s why Mushota comes in here day in and day out telling us that the black mind in inferior to that of whites. Arcades and Manda Hill where we have whites, the places are clean. Why? because they provide bins for people to throw in their rubbish. They also pay the people who collect them regulary. Is this difficult to do in rest of Lusaka? Walk along Cairo road & you will finds few small bins by certain companies in certain places which are not collected for days or weeks. LCC is supposed to place bins all over Cairo road which are picked regulary. We expect LCC to provide bins for all house holds which are collected weekly by a company or companies contracted by LCC itself. Why then does LCC charge rates on houses? Yes, LCC should not provide stationary big bins all over the city
Zambia needs a white man for president inorder to cleaned up,thank you
Im surprised this is the first time you are coneusfd, Ollie. It seems quite obvious to me. The green boxes are the generic item, which should obviously be telephone directories’ or somesuch, whereas the photos may show brands as examples.Anyhow, this aside, the principle is the environmental message that directories are a stupid waste of time. The brackets help you associate the product with engine oil if you still dont understand!
Mr. Kapata I think here you have missed it. The role of Councils is to, among other things, protect its citizens from diseases. and waste management is one of them. who should provide these bins then? CDEs? I think your public health department has become too fat to do the job, dismember the entire department and start afresh with new blood:d