Solid Waste Management and Recycling

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Figure 4.1. Solid waste collection, transportation and disposal system in Nairobi

Policy making

• MOLG


• MENR


• NEC


• NCC

Implementation and enforcement

Waste generation

• Households


• Institutions


• Industries


• NFMA

Solid waste collection

• NCC


• Private companies


• Civil society (CBOs,


• NGOs, RAs)


• NEMA

Burning

• CBOs


• NCC

Industries

and bulk

generators

directly or

via agencies

Disposal

• NCC


• NEMA


• Gangs of pickers & dealers


• Private owners of


• abandoned quarries

Recycling

• Informal actors


• Waste dealers


• One wholesaler


• Small & large recycling


• enterprises


• Composting groups


• Donors


• NEMA

Incineration

burning & burying

• Households


• Institutions


• Industries

Reuse & trade

• Households


• Institutions


• Farmers


• Informal actors

Uncollected waste