This encouraged Ilala Municipality Council in Dar es Salaam to come up with the best ways of waste management aiming at creating more jobs to school dropouts. Mr. Jerry Silaa, the Ilala Municipality Council Mayor told East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam the municipality has opted to manage its waste in order to generate income.
According to Silaa, Ilala municipality council alone produces about 1,088 tons of waste products on daily basis while only 450 to 550 waste products are collected daily.
The newly introduced system if applied to other municipalities of Temeke and Kinondoni he says would be able to create more jobs and improve family incomes.
The mayor pointed out the system of waste management goes along with city beautification which he says needs to be cost effective and is already in progress by targeting all the open space areas in Dar es Salaam and city roundabouts.
He said Ilala municipality council alone uses $1.27m (Tsh.2bn) every year in waste collections and says there was need for the stakeholders to finance the city cleaning in the city in order to attract more tourists.
Mr. Silaa says currently the city beautification is being undertaken by his municipality in collaboration with stakeholder which aims at attracting more tourists, saying there is need to have places which could attract tourists and Dar residents in at large.
"If you go to Europe and many other places in Africa, their cities have beautiful places where tourists are attracted to take photographs adding that Dar es Salaam has been lacking such places and the municipality has already started the beautification in different localities of the city" says the Mayor.
According to Mr. Samuel Bubegwa, the Municipality Waste Management Officer, the municipality in collaboration with Arthi University are running a cost effective waste management project at Buguruni to the West of Dar es salaam.
Bubegwa says the municipality opted for a profit way of managing waste product in the city in order to allow the municipality to generate income while at the same time help the community in job creation to Ilala municipality dwellers with a population of about 634,924 according to 2002 Tanzania's population census where around 40.5% of its residents are jobless.
He says this pilot project has been first launched in highly populated unplanned areas of Buguruni in Dar es Salaam city where they have been able to employ many city dwellers in the production of compost manure while at the same time help the city dwellers to best collect bottles for recycling.
"This system is being practiced at community level where quality control is being implemented in collaboration with experts from Arthi University of Dar es salaam where we have been able to produce composts manure which is generating $800 on monthly basis to the jobless residents, Bubegwa says and adds that there is need to have compost standard so as to compare the quality of the recycled compost at Buguruni with other compost manure."
He says that after the waste is collected, it is crushed by sieve and then shredders before being transferred to windrows after which compost manure is obtained in four days.
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