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By Jeanne Françoise Umumararungu
The Green Party finds that more efforts are needed in the campaign to educate and sensitize the public to discriminate between biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste because it affects climate change and human life as reiterated by Madame Jacky Masozera in the training given to members of this party in Nyamagabe district.
The members of the green party say that the people already have the habit of collecting waste, but the vehicles that come to pick it up mix it when they dump it.
Niyonizei said: “We put the bases in bags, but when he asks to take them, he pours them mixed because they mix them on the engine.”
He continued to say that the transporters have been bringing 2 different vehicles which would reduce the mixture of this waste.
Norbert Bucyeneza says that all the waste would be removed from the house and placed in the recycling center if it is actually produced.
He said, “The best thing would be to reduce the air pollution from the garbage that is mixed and stays on the engine, but the compost would be put in the recycling center and then taken to the recycling center because the delay in the engine also affects the people who live near of it.”
He added that those who live near the engine often suffer from diseases caused by pollution due to the insects from the waste of the engine to the homes of the residents and respiratory diseases due to the smoke from the waste that pollutes the air they breathe.
In an interview The Forefront Magazine had with the Chief Financial Officer of the Green Party Madame Jacky Masozera, she said that there is a need for a campaign on the both side.
She said, “We still have a campaign to sensitize the people to segregate the compostable waste and put it separately. But this does not concern only the people because the carriers of this waste must also pack them separately and deliver it to an unmixed engine.”
She adds that they should not ignore the fact that the capacity to transport waste is still high and the vehicles that carry it do not immediately like that there are those that transport biodegradable waste and others that transport non-biodegradable waste, due to the fact that the processing industries in Rwanda are still few.
She said, “We do not ignore that everything is going slowly, but it will reach an interesting step. Even though it is a journey, we must know that the waste would be very useful due to the fact that the non-decomposable plastic is used as coal used in construction, some are used for briquettes, etc.”
As contained in the Paris Agreements and the Kigali Amendments, the Government of Rwanda has adopted measures to protect and preserve the environment and deal with climate change by reducing emissions. The atmosphere in order to maintain the Ozone filter. One of these measures is the management of the waste that accumulates in the engines.
