MCM INTRODUCES NEW MODEL
…For Waste Minimisation
MBABANE – The Municipal Council of Mbabane through the partnership with the European Union in Eswatini and the Eswatini Economic Policy Analysis and Research Centre (ESEPARC) is introducing a new waste minimisation model for safe and sustainable waste disposal in Mbabane city.
The purpose of the new model is to implement waste minimisation from sources of generation. Households and the business community within Mbabane are urged to segregate their waste from source and channelling it to the appropriate streams.
Through the model, the people of Mbabane will be introduced to waste segregation into dry and wet streams for recycling purposes and disposal of unrecyclable wastes thus reducing the amount of waste going to the landfill.
This will be done by putting aside dry waste, food waste as well as recyclables for households and general waste, food waste, hazardous waste and recyclables for the business community.
The Municipal Council of Mbabane aims to introduce waste segregation into dry and wet streams for recycling purposes and disposal of unrecyclable wastes. There will be a mobilisation of city-wide stakeholder involvement in the management of wastes.
Full scale participation of on Accredited Waste Collectors into waste operations is expected to be one of the key accomplishments from this project as well as a compliance with the new generation model of segregating waste streams through the in progress proposed Municipal Council of Mbabane Waste Management Bylaw.
The Municipal Council of Mbabane has undertaken measures in the past to capacitate its citizenry particularly in all the 11 informal communities of Mbabane.
Through this they introduced them to recycling as a means to minimize waste destined to the landfill as well as promoting waste as a livelihood in vulnerable families.
The recycling initiative was responding to the first R- of the 3R concept being recycling of waste.
This gave birth to the rise of small businesses selling recyclable waste at the two local Recycling markets within the city’s industrial sites and the only community recycling centre at Msunduza Community.
The women, who form a major part of the vulnerable folks within the informal communities, were introduced to the second R- of the concept being reuse.
Several trainings were offered in many grass root communities and many to date have turned the production of eco-products from used waste materials into sustainable incomes.
In an effort to introduce the component of reduction, which is the third R of the recycling concept/ waste minimization, the Council further introduced the segregation of food waste for the production of food waste organic compost.
This started at community level to boost the production of Climate Smart backyard gardens.
The gardens attracted massive participation as the people realised great farm yields as a result of utilising the food waste compost also known as BOKASHI Compost.
This new system will be marketed on social media as well through the hashtag ‘Hlukanisa Tibi Takho’.
