MININSTRY OF EDUCATION

LUANSHYA BOYS SECONDARY

TITLE: WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ZAMBIA, A
CASE STUDY OF LUANSHYA
NAME: TEMWANI ALAN SAKALA
EXAM NUMBER: 18050061026
TEACHER: Mr CHANDA JK
YEAR:2023
TABLE OF CONTENT

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
 DEDICATION
 INTRODUCTION
 BACKGROUND
 LOCATION
 AIM
 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
 METHODOLOGY
 DATA AND PRESENTATION
 INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS
 PROBLEMS AND LIMITATION
 CONCLUSION AND EVALUTION
 REFERENCE
 1.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENI

I would like to thank Mr. chanda JK for his support in helping me to correct the mistakes and preparation required to
complete my field project
2.0 DEDICATION

I would to thank my parents for giving me the funding and support when it came to doing my field project.
3.0 INTRODUCATION

The management of waste has been a difficult and challenging issue faced in Zambia over the years due to lack of
knowledge on waste management by the people in Zambia. Poor waste management has caused a number of issues
such as the spread of diseases like cholera and dysentery, it has also caused pollution in the sense that people throw
their trash in public places and burn them in streets which causes air pollution and may have negative effects on
people must likely people with breathing problems.

So this field project was conducted to find out the types of waste found in Luanshya, the dangers of waste
mismanagement and the methods used in displacing waste.

3.1 Background

Luanshyu is known to be a small district with a lot of challenges pertaining to waste management. The area is faced
with a number of challenges related to sanitation due to lack of knowledge of waste management. Due to lack of
knowledge of waste management people do not know where to throw their waste, where to dump their waste and how
to manage their waste in the areas in Luanshya. But you can find some development in the urban areas Kamireda
where you find people who are paid to collect trash by the homes where the collect the trash from which helps
minimise the waste in Luanshya but not everyone can afford this service so the end using different methods of waste
management such as creating a dump pit at their homes, so this service as only improved the urban areas in Luanshya
but not such much because only a select few can afford them or will see this a waste of money and end using some
other method instead.

3.2 location
4.0 AIMS
5.0 specific objectives

This study was undertaken to;

 Find out the types of waste found in Luanshya

 Ascertain the dangers of waste mismanagement in Luanshya
 Assess the various methods used in disposing of waste in Luanshya
 Find causes of waste mismanagement in Luanshya
6.0 METHODOLOGY

In this study six method where used in collecting data and the methods are as fellows they will either fall under
primary or secondary data. The information was collected from roan where I based my study on.

6.1 Primary data

a) Observation:
During my research I observed that people do not care where they throw their trash as along as it is not at
their homes, I went and visited I local bam named makoma bam where I so that waste products such as
plastics, glass bottles and others where everywhere causing water pollution.
b) Picture study:
the picture below shows an area where people dump their waste.

c) Questionnaire
I went around asking people question related to waste management and they are as follows:
I. How do you manage waste at home?
II. How they feel about waste mismanagement?
III. And if they know about the dangers of waste mismanagement?
IV. And how they would handle the increase waste found in their community if given the chance?

6.2 Secondary data

a) pervious field projects:

Here information was gathered from reports of pervious field projects done on waste management.
d) Internet
Here I read adout waste mangement in general with referece to WWW.conserve-energy.com/waste
management.php.
e) Geography text book
I read about dangers of waste mismanagement to have a deeper understanding on effect of poor waste
management.
7.0 Data Presentation

Figure 1.0 shows a pie chart showing in percentage the number of manage waste by an individual, unmanaged waste
and waste managed by the council.

waste management

10%
unmanage waste
waste managed by individuals
waste managed by the council
50%
40%

Figure 1.2 show waste management strategies at home level

15

10

Storing(Temporal) burning Dumping

Figure 1.3 Shows the types of waste and the sources and the frequency in which that waste is found.

SOURCE OF EXAMPLE OF WASTE FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE

WASTE
Industrial waste Medical waste eg needles
and syringes, bandages, and
21 17.5%
sewer waste
Commercial waste Agriculture waste eg 35 29%
pesticides and fertilizer
containers
Domestic waste Plastics , paper, scraps and 21 53.3%
 rotten food stuffs
TOTAL 120 100%
Figure 1.4 shows the causes of waste mismanagement.

lack of
infrastructure for
waste management

lack of proper
insuffcient budget
council managed
trash collecting casuses for waste
management
service

lack of public
awareness on
waste management
8.0 INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS
Figure 1.1 was showing how waste is handled in a community