Municipal waste management in the city of Kinshasa

Every day we create waste. For example when we eat a banana and throw away the peel it becomes waste. When we drink a soft drink and throw away the can it too becomes waste. Waste management refers to how we treat waste what happens to it after we've thrown it away. This waste ends up in landfill sites but unfortunately contributes to environmental pollution.Urban waste management is one of the major ecological challenges facing the city-province of Kinshasa. The capital of DR Congo which produces over 10000 tonnes of waste a day has no viable landfill site or one that is more or less abandoned. The health and environmental consequences are catastrophic.This book proposes effective alternatives to alleviate this problem through a Socio-Technological analysis proposing both social solutions and the use of New Information and Communication Technologies not forgetting Electromechanical equipment to optimize the management of public landfills.