Since our Council is highly lethargic, selective and ineffective in collecting and disposing off garbage, one of the options most people think they have is of burning the offending stuff! In the process, neighbourhoods and houses are enveloped in unhealthy smoke, like we were (and it's done on an irregular basis every so often), in our neighbourhood late this afternoon.
This is highly environmentally unhealthy as well as very dangerous to inhale not to mention the fact that the smell stays in our houses long after the dump has finished burning.
Some estates also have a policy of burning their garbage and they couldn't care less about the effect it has on the residents.
Why can't we re-cycle and/or classify our garbage and have it disposed off in a more healthy manner. For this we need our Council's support and this is where everything goes awry. Our Council is mostly populated with semi and illiterates who are busy working for their personal bottomless pockets' benefit and therefore it is a very uphill struggle to get them to cooperate effectively.
I again tried getting the Local Authorities email address from the Kenya Government website, but, to no avail. They don't display one. Again, one can quite understand why since they are scared of getting deluged with countless emails from frustrated citizens. In fact, while they have a list of all the Councils' so-called urls. When you click on the Mombasa one, you will get nowhere! They only exist as an url which is not surprising since I have mentioned many times, they are not living and working in the 21st Century!
Regarding the above pictures see below...
Both of these are enveloping the neighbourhood in clouds of acrid smoke
Next to the previous site within a few meters another pile is lighted up
Somebody burning garbage, etc.
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