Municipal waste management in the city of Kinshasa

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Every day, we create waste. For example, when we eat a banana and throw away the peel, it becomes waste. When we drink a soft drink and throw away the can, it too becomes waste. Waste management refers to how we treat waste, what happens to it after we've thrown it away. This waste ends up in landfill sites, but unfortunately contributes to environmental pollution.Urban waste management is one of the major ecological challenges facing the city-province of Kinshasa. The capital of DR Congo, which produces over 10,000 tonnes of waste a day, has no viable landfill site, or one that is more or less abandoned. The health and environmental consequences are catastrophic.This book proposes effective alternatives to alleviate this problem, through a Socio-Technological analysis, proposing both social solutions and the use of New Information and Communication Technologies, not forgetting Electromechanical equipment, to optimize the management of public landfills.