Browsing by Author "Mbwilo, Emmanuel C."

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    An assessment of municipal solid waste collection services at community level, in Mbeya city
    (The University of Dodoma, 2018) Mbwilo, Emmanuel C.
    This study aimed at assessing the efficiency of Municipal Solid Waste collection services (MSWCS) at community level in Mbeya City. Efficiency was specifically assessed by establishing the coverage of Municipal Solid Waste collection services, existing methods of collection and finally determine challenges associated with MSWCS. Data were collected through structured questionnaires, key informant interviews, documentary reviews and field observations. Questionnaire survey was undertaken from 100 households in six selected wards namely Ilomba, Nzovwe, Iyela, Ilemi, Mwakibete and Luanda. All of these data were coded and analyzed through statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) as well as excel software. Findings have revealed that, MSWCS in Mbeya City is inefficient due to a number of challenges including low community environmental education and awareness, shortage of skip buckets and bays, insufficient Electrical Fiscal Devices (EFDs) for refuse collection, inadequate enforcement of laws, increasing population and socio economic activities, human and financial constraints, shortage of vehicles, and increasing waste production against collection capability. The study concludes that, despite of the highlighted challenges, still communities are in favor of the existing solid waste collection services, particularly point collection in their localities. Hence the study therefore, recommends to the Mbeya city council to enhance environmental education and awareness campaigns, provide more skip buckets, increase Electrical Fiscal Devices (EFDs) for collection of monthly refuse fees, increase bays, and undertake fair enforcement of environmental sanitation laws. Key words Municipal solid waste, efficiency, solid waste collection, services.
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    Municipal solid waste collection services in rapidly growing cities of Tanzania
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2022) Mbwilo, Emmanuel C.; Mahenge, Felix Yohana
    Globally, rapid urban and population growth poses a huge problem for solid waste management (SWM), with developing countries’ fast-growing cities having more SWM challenges than industrialized countries. In Mbeya, Tanzania, a study to investigate the performance of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) collection services was carried out using a descriptive cross-sectional research design, and a mixed research approach. Questionnaires, interviews, field observations, and document reviews were used to gather information. Among the indicators used to evaluate the performance of Solid Waste (SW) collection services were the levels of community participation in SW collection, means of SW collection, coverage, amount of SW collected daily, facilities for SW collection and transportation, timely SW removal from collection points, and the ability to address SW collection challenges. Quantitative data was analysed using the IBM-SPSS software. Multiple response functions in SPSS were used to analyse questions with more than one answer, while content analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data. The findings indicate that MSW collection services in Mbeya City are under-performing due to a number of factors, including the lack of vehicles and solid waste storage facilities, delays in removing solid waste from collection points, low city council budget allocation and disbursement for SWM activities, and the lack of willingness of the Mbeya City Council to address MSW collection challenges. It is thus concluded that adopting and enhancing the publicprivate partnership model in SWM is critical to addressing MSW collection difficulties in Tanzania’s rapidly growing cities.