Taita Taveta County, Mwatate Sub County, Rong’e Ward, Mariwenyi Village
Environmental concerns and natural disasters management (floods, landslides, deforestation etc)
Specific Problem or Need –
Increased rate of irresponsible plastic disposal in Kenya due to lack of proper waste management knowledge and skills
Early Warning Signs and Indicators –
- Overflow of sewage in communities due to littered plastic waste blocking sewerage systems
- Damaged flora as a result of dioxins emitted from excessive burning of plastics settling on crops and trees
- Frequent breakout of respiratory diseases amongst community members due to inhalation of toxins emitted from burning of plastics
- Death of both marine and terrestrial organisms due to chocking caused by plastic waste
Rapid Response Proposals –
- Creating community awareness on the dangers of poor disposal and burning of plastic wastes
- Educating the communities about the importance of implementing proper waste management techniques such as reusing, reducing and recycling.
- Strategically setting up of sorting bins in Mariwenyi to ensure organic waste is used as manure and plastic waste is collected for proper recycling
Developing an automated alert system to inform waste management team whenever plastic bins are full so as to enable prompt waste collection for recycling
Worst Case Scenario
Global warming and loss of biodiversity due to emission of greenhouse gases from burning plastics
Efficient and Effective Interventions –
Reduce plastic manufacture at the industry level through promoting reuse and recycling of plastic waste
Collaborations and Partnerships –
- Water and soft drinks bottling companies like Cocacola and Quencher
- Recycling companies like Gjenge that turns plastic waste to bricks and Ecopost that makes poles from plastic waste
- Taita Taveta county government
Resources Required
We require funds to carry out the awareness creation, making the sorting bins and distributing them around, research more on how GIS can help in plastic waste identification and collection
We don’t have any funds currently
We would like to raise 200,000 in year one
Implementation Level of the Proposed Solution –
Creation of awareness and design of the sorting bins
The Team
Nasubo Imelda – 0713275459 – Team Leader
Paul Njinu – 0798762251 – Designer
Moses Karanja – 0741809186 – Technical Adviser
Joyline Yego – 0792766282 – Secretary
Lewis Munyao – 0795462465 – Treasury
Registered Group