Network for Sanitation Concerns and Solutions (NESCOS) Director Lloyd Siame said the organisation targets to install 1500 waste recycling bins in Lusaka.
Speaking during the launch of waste recycling project dubbed “Waste Recycling Bin in Lusaka”.
Mr Siame said the project has since commenced and some townships roads have so far benefited.
He said the bin installing programme will be extended to all township roads in the city.
Mr Siame disclosed that so far the project has created employment for 100 people who will be collecting and maintaining the bins.
He said NESCOS intends to carry out a sensitization programme in the communities and establish waste skills centres so that the project can be successful.
Mr Siame said NESCOS will also be collecting waste and sell to Recycling Companies who will be transforming the waste into usable products.
He commended the Lusaka City Council (LCC) for its quest to making sure that the city is kept clean.
And Action Auto Managing Director Mike Bently said his company is happy to partner with NESCOS as the initiative will help in creating a culture of cleanliness amongst people.
Mr Bently noted that the programme is going to help in lessening pollution, and contribute to the wellbeing of the economy in the country through job creation and income generation.
Who will be emptying them and where to?
The culture of cleanliness should be inculcated in our heads first.
I am shocked that people are generally happy living in such depths of dirt and go about their lives normally.
Are we a garbage country?
If we love to be surrounded by garbage and filth, we can as well forget about eradicating diseases like cholera
@Gen.
I haven’t read such a good comment in weeeeeks. Sometimes I look at PF ministers and say to myself that Zambia will never be clean.
UPND need change strategy of campaign, stop using “economical” growth, use trash eradication.
@Gen
Just inculcating cleanliness in people’s heads is not enough if the government of day has no properly implemented sanitation policy. The government should first provide the sanitation facilities and then embark on a sensitisation campaign for people to understand and respect sanitation regulations.
Why beat about the bush about this issue? Poor sanitation is a clear indication of extremely poor PF leadership. The government should should have built designated trading areas within the city and make sure no one goes about their business any how any where.
Tough Laws should be passed to fine those who fly tip and throw rubbish any where.
Going forward we need a leadership bold enough to set sanitation standards and enforce them robustly.
Everything PF is total rubbish.
In developed countries like the UK, hygiene would have been a major issue had the government and local authorities ignored it, like our Zambian government is currently doing.
In the UK local authorities work with central government to ensure that, regulations to protect the health of people against infection caused by garbage dumping are passed , reviewed and enforced robustly. People who throw rubbish any how get fined heavily.
Without tougher regulations and hygiene standards in the UK, this place would have been the dirtiest in the world despite being a developed country.
If there was a political will on the part of PF – CNP this issue of Lusaka being the dirtiest city in Southern African would have been dealt with already.
Folks
My instincts are telling @Gen ‘s real name is Amos Chanda.
There’s a lot of sense in what most of you are suggesting about the subject matter, but why reveal a fellow blogger’s identity (although I don’t necessarily think Wanzelu’s guess on @ Gen is correct)? Such “Shu Shu Shu” tendencies kill the spirit of many well-meaning Zambians to contribute to the good of our country. Wamvera boyi “Wanzelu”?
Wanzelu
Next you will say am Kabimba.Lolest, but we know who you are.check mate
Someone is doing something great, creating Jobs, and your A-S-S is criticizing.
Sensitization programme must be done non-stop! So far many people do not comprehend what keeping the city clean means. Look at the litter everywhere! It’s in the minds of people. If you fail to change the mindsets, tough job. Make and let them learn, sensitisation, for ignorance is a great barrier. Well done for the bins, be prompt emptying them.
What is Network for Sanitation Concerns and Solutions? Who funds it? Who will be emptying these “bins” in the longterm….why is it that our journalists today are only good at writing down statement…don’t editors exist, all are they all self taught like Mr Fred Meembe?
*Or are they …
The dumpsters will be used to dispose aborted fetuses..
Year in year out, we see the problem of waste coming back. This issue has nothing to do with the government in power, but the mindset of the peoples. It’s sickening to see people throwing garbage in the newly constructed drainages. Cleaningness cannot be taught by government, its not anyone’s responsibility to tell the citizenry not to throw garbage in drainages..its common sense. I have seen people throw litter outside the bins, even when the bins are empty.
So, yes I agree with @Gen…the culture of cleaningness has to be inculcated…BUT THIS, IS NOT THE JOB OF GOVERNMENT OR PF.
Start from schools. Teach the teachers to teach the kids!!! Once kids know they will teach the parentd
PF-CNP ni ba chimbwi chabe.
If the government can not provide leadership at all levels in the country to ensure a smooth running of the country, who shoulder that responsibility? Why is PF-CNP in government then? Is it Just to construct roads and get bribes for it? Is it just to stifle descent and intimidate those with opposing views?.
If the government is collecting levies from the city dwellers, who then is supposed to pay the garbage collectors. Who is supposed to pass the required laws to ensure that sanitation sensitisation is carried out? Who is supposed to police against reckless garbage throwers.
Its really a shame if government can’t take lead on issues of Health and safety.
Typical of PF-CNP minions always denying the responsibilities of elected officials.
Bane, I am not coming home until this Chibwi no plan govt leaves. What a a country and a city and a people living with such filth on a regular day. You why cholera troubles Zambia each year. Now I don’t blame the Boers for the tough rules they had.
Trashopolis – Lusaka City.
Year is 2114. Lusaka City, population 15million, the cleanest city in the southern hemisphere, once a filthy little city of some 2million hapless citizens saddled with mounds of garbage and buzzing flies.
Disease, especially cholera and dysentery was a common visitor to its citizenry that grappled with floods thrust upon them by the same garbage that choked each and every drainage that criss-crossed the tiny metropolis.
But how did Lusaka convert all this filth, trash to the glitter and artistic skyscrapers and architectural beauty that now define this environmentally sterile hub? How did the city utilise the same trash that almost suffocated the entire population to death, to erect the splendid parks and environmentally friendly amenities dotted….
Collecting trash is big business in New York. I see a business waiting to be exploited by someone capable of buying trash collection tracks and employing people to collect trash. Trash has nothing to do with party affilialation
LCC has had the most weird idea of their purpose. They have reduced the council to a cleaning janitor! And so one wonders how a 100plus council employees could clean up the rubbish produced by over 2m people!! impossible. The LCC’s strategy must change. I mean, LCC must move towards being the Executive for Self Cleaning. All they need are modern deposit sites, amending the law so every house hold trash facilities, enforce the law that all public places (shops, bars) have trash facilities and toilets, deal with street vending and enter into business partnership wth cleaning companies. And above all, establish a vigorous campaign against the culture of filth.
Let’s copy Germany . They charge trash throwers and police tackle culprits. Hut agreed
It’s about the citizens taking action too.
Cleaness is next to Godly.Keep it up.Some people are dirty in there mouth with what they say but they do know,shame.