Solid Waste Management
Providing solutions for better solid waste management ways. Waste from our markets and homesteads is a key contributor to our water sources pollution.
Solid Waste Management
Most of our water sources get polluted by solid waste from our markets and homesteads.
In 2015 during the El-Nino rains ISCoD previously operating as Esango Youth Group volunteered to help curb pollution of water sources through drainage unblocking, market cleaning, and garbage collection in the Marani market, this gave birth to an impactful journey, offering solid waste management at Marani market, Kisii County.
Later that year ISCoD was awarded a permanent contract with Kisii county government to carry out the services, this provided it with some financial resources that enabled it to engage needy people to carry out the work and earn a livelihood through employment.
This programme was later scaled up to other markets across Kisii County earning numerous youth and needy people a living and also contributing towards managing solid waste state in the markets.
In the next phase of this programme ISCoD will seek to work on solid waste segregation at source and work on recycling solutions for different waste types collected.
Waste Plastic Recycling
According to the UN-Habitat research study, a greater percentage of solid waste collected at our markets is composed of waste plastic and needs urgent action due to its impact on the environment and by extension climate change.
This reflects the composition of solid waste collected in our markets.
ISCoD through its executive director was part of the Team that started the Precious Plastic -Kisii recycling workshop at KATC and also had the privilege to visit the Netherlands to learn more about waste plastic recycling.
Through the partnership with World Relief Australia our Executive Director oversaw the establishment of Precious Plastics Manyatta, which has employed 6 youths full-time and earns others living through selling collected plastic to workshops.
ISCoD seeks to expand the waste plastic recycling effort by ensuring that we have the recycling workshops in most of our markets where solid waste management is being done.