Solutions to Garbage Pollution- Ideas

• We could organize a beach clean-up every week to clean up the beaches in the Coast.



• We could write to the Municipal council of Mombasa to request them to stop burning garbage in public environments like Bombululu and Kibarani, but areas where there are is less public.


• We could organize cards for donations to buy more bins, and slowly small trucks to transport the garbage from point A-B.

The Dangers Of Garbage Pollution

• The air caused when garbage is burnt could be very irritating to many people's health.
• When you burn garbage it produces toxic gas.

The toxic gases produced when burning garbage include the following:

• nitrogen oxide
• sulphur dioxide
• Volatile organic chemicals and others.

Facts On Garbage Pollution In Mombasa

• About 500 to 600 metric tons of garbage is generated in the town.
• Mombasa has only about 12 garbage collector trucks when it requires about 20 in order for it to have the ability to collect the garbage generated daily, by the town.
• The mombasa municipal council lacks the expertise on ways on which to collect garbage around the town.
• Some villagers died shortly after eating some rotten fish and toxic maize in a dump site in Mombasa, kenya. They were from the Mwakirunge village.
• Council workers burn in garbage Kibarani, which causes air pollution and makes it inconvenient for motorists, commuters, and tourists coming out from the Moi International Airport.

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