TABLE OF CONTENT

Title..............................................................................................................1.0
Introduction..............................................................................................2.0
Background and Location...................................................................2.1
Problem Statement................................................................................3.0
Aim................................................................................................................3.1
Objectives...................................................................................................3.2
Methodology.............................................................................................4.0
Literature Review...................................................................................5.0
Data Collection.........................................................................................6.0
Data Presentation....................................................................................7.0
Data interpretation and Analysis.....................................................7.1
Problems and Limitation.....................................................................8.0
Conclusion.................................................................................................9.0
Recommendations.................................................................................10.0

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 TITLE

Causes associated with solid waste management in mine Area Township of

chililabombwe district.

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 INTRODUCTION

The management of waste has been a difficult and challenging issue in Mine
Area Township over the years. Poor waste management causes diseases such as
cholera, dysentery and pollution, as well as water, air, soil and land
contamination, proliferation of pests and vermin and the loss of aesthetic
beauty. In this regard, it is clear that solid waste disposal is a factor that
contributes to the problem of environment degradation. Solid waste is the
dumped waste that affects the environment in several ways that can have
adverse impacts on the environment. Disposing of solid waste is important in
that if taken in consideration, it can prevent environment degradation.
However, if not disposed in a good manner, solid waste results in environment
hazardous parts of the environment .This field study was therefore carried out
in order to access the link between solid waste disposal and environment
degradation in Mine Area Township of chililabombwe.

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 BACKGROUND

Mine Area Township is known to be a substandard area of settlement with a lot

of challenges pertaining to waste management. The area is faced with a number
of challenges relating to sanitation due to crowding effects of settlement style.
Due to crowding, waste management is a big challenge in the compound.
However, Failure to manage wastes in a proper manner has got a very huge
negative impact on the environment. Mine Area Township is a settlement of low
class people who are economically impaired and are not able to pay for garbage
collection by Chililabombwe municipal council. This has resulted in disposing of
wastes in undersigned areas such as drainages’ along road the road sides, along
the market places and many more illegal sites.
 LOCATION

Below is a map showing the location of Mine Area Township.

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 PROBLEM STATEMENT

Even with the effort used by the Chililabombwe Municipal council in controlling
the effects of solid waste disposal in mine area Township, there is need to see
how this process of solid waste disposal and the amount of solid waste is related
or rather connected to environmental degradation. It is in this view that this
study was carried out on the link between solid waste disposal and the
degradation of the environment in mine Area Township.
 AIM

The aim of this project was to find out the effects and challenges of solid waste
management in mine area township of Chililabombwe District.

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 OBJECTIVES

 Find out the types of solid waste found in mine area

 Investigate the causes of solid waste
 To discover how solid waste is disposed in mine area township
 Ascertain the dangers of waste mismanagement
 METHODOLOGY

In this report two methodologies were used to obtain the information

Primary data

a) Observation:

During my research I observed that people do not care where they throw their
trash as long as it is not at their homes, I visited the place where i saw that
waste products such as plastics, glass bottles and others where everywhere.

b) Questionnaire:

I went around asking people question related to waste management and they
are as follows:

Q1. First Name................................

Surname.....................................

Q2. Gender

Female Male

Q3. Marital Status

Married Single Divorced

Q4. Type of living

Low class Medium Class High Class

Q5. How do you manage waste at home?

Q6. How they feel about waste mismanagement?

Q7. And if they know about dangers of mismanagement?

Q8. And how they would handle the increase waste found in their community if
given the chance?

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Secondary data

a) Pervious field projects:

Here information was gathered from reports of pervious field project done on
waste management.

b) Internet:
Here I read about waste management in general with reference to WWW.
Conserve-energy.com/waste management.php.

C) Geography text book

I read about the dangers of waste mismanagement to have a deeper

understanding on effect of poor waste management.