Informal waste collection and its co-existence with the formal waste sector: The case of Kampala, Uganda
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2013
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Habitat International
Abstract
We analyze how the informal collectors and the formal sector co-exist in solid waste collection in
Kampala. We rely on household surveys and a small survey among the informal collectors in Kampala.
Findings suggest that informal collectors play a substantial role in the first stage e collecting solid waste
from the households, notably from poorer segments of the population. This is not the ‘dualist’ aspect of
poor earnings but actually made possible by them escaping control on where to deposit the waste.
Employing a simple technology, and bringing the waste no farther than the nearest unofficial ‘collection
point’, they provide services at low cost to the households, but much less so to the community (environmentally
of little use). If public provisions can be made for the second stage in waste collection, this
may trigger even more supply of small-scale collecting services, a combination that may prove cost
effective.
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Formal, Informal, Solid waste collection, Co-existence
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Katusiimeh, M. W., Burger, K., & Mol, A. P. (2013). Informal waste collection and its co-existence with the formal waste sector: The case of Kampala, Uganda. Habitat International, 38, 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2012.09.002