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This is KCDN, an Environmental Management, Economic Empowerment and Poverty Eradication Civil Society.

We welcome you to our site. Kindly feel free to share with us your thoughts. Ideas that add value will be appreciated. Ideas that want to make us improve our physical environment will be welcome. And more so, ideas that redirect us from the lost cause will be of immense value.

It is us who will improve the lot of our Environment, our Economy and make Kenya a Clean Country, where People join hands to work for our own Economic Emancipation and where Municipal Solid Waste Management is looked at as a resource, not as waste.

We need to set the standards in this region of the World and become the referral point in how a people can join hands and work for their own Economic Liberation, where waste can be used as raw material and become a source of employment for our people.

Our collective actions will surely make a difference. This is why in partnership with our Key Strategic Partners- The Public Service Transformation Department, the National Environment Management Authority, the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation,other key Ministries, the Local Authorities in Kenya, the Provincial Administration, A Better World, Akiba Uhaki Foundation and other Partners, we are moving deliberately in sensitizing and mobilizing Kenyans to work towards A Clean Kenya where waste is separated at source.

And this is why we are inviting Kenyans to join with us in The Clean Kenya Campaign and be a Member of Kimisho Sacco Society Ltd

Welcome.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Team Leader & Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KICL & TCKC,
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com, kimishodevelopment@gmail.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Full Carton Recycling- Pratical Steps

Friends,
Today is one good day for us who believe that a Clean Kenya at 50 is possible.
Last week, we had a Consultative Strategic Planning Session at the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources between the Government and the Community Based Organizations handling Waste and Garbage.This meeting was co-chaired by Mr. FN Kihumba on behalf of the PS and Mr. Titus Simiyu- the Provincial Director of Environment.
We must reclaim this.
Today, we hosted the 2nd such Planning Session at the Ministry again and we had a very detailed brief from Ms Judy Karume- the Environment Manager at Tetra Pak Eastern Africa. At long last, the process of Separation of Waste at Source is being mainstreamed.
The Community Based Groups, Schools and all Waste Collectors in Nairobi are being invited to this partnership, which is a Pilot Process between The Ministry and Tetra Pak Eastern Africa. It will see the collection of all Tetra Pak Packaging Waste being removed from the main Waste Stream and being recycled by EcoTek.
Currently, Nairobi is generating 2,400 tonnes of waste daily, and sadly, the City Council of Nairobi can only remove 850 tonnes for dumping, a very poor process of waste handling. The new Initiative between the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Tetra Pak Eastern Africa and the Waste Collectors will hence be a timely intervention.
We have continuously talked about waste being wealth, and continuously done nothing about it. At long last, we have a process that will start fast tracking this process with Nairobi being our Pilot Scheme. We are targeting the following people and teams for participation;
  1. Waste Collectors
  2. Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning
  3. Markets,
  4. Bars
  5. House Holds
  6. Hospitals
  7. Shopping Malls
  8. Supermarkets etc
Ecotek and Tetra Pak Eastern Africa will have a collection schedule where their trucks will have a clear time table for collection of such Tetra Pak Packaging Waste. Someone might want to ask, what are the Tetra Pak Packaging Wastes? These are all Milk and Juice Packaging Materials.
Payments for all waste such collected will be immediate and we want to invite all our partners in Nairobi to reach out to us, to enable us share the necessary details with them.
The reclaimed waste will come in handy and at the end of it all, we might end up making Pens, Books, and all such like items from the same.
Sad scenario
This process is going to be officially launched shortly and we shall keep you posted.
On behalf of The Clean Kenya Campaign, we want to sincerely thank the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Tetra Pak Eastern Africa, National Environment Management Authority and all Partners who have come on board for working towards a Clean Kenya.
Let us all work for a Clean Kenya as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,
The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC
The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN Kenya.
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