| dc.description.abstract | Globally, the increasing waste generation due to the exploding population has posed significant questions on global waste resource recovery and management practices. This has triggered a growing interest in waste resource management and recovery practices. Many countries are adopting policies and regulations to promote sustainable waste management practices, such as waste segregation, collection, and disposal, as well as resource recovery practices like recycling, composting, and energy recovery. Waste has been a key enabler of innovation and has contributed to the development and progress of society on a global scale. In Uganda, many ideas and private companies are evolving to reduce waste volumes in addition to the over-utilised government landfill in Kitezi. Therefore, the study aimed to generate more information on waste resource recovery and management practices at the disposal sites that are useful in improving and appreciating the potential of waste management and environmental pollution in Kawempe Division, Kampala City. The study was conducted in the parishes of Kawempe Division, namely; Makerere (i), (ii) and (iii), Bwaise, Kawempe (i), Kyebando, Kanyanaya, Mulago and Makerere University. Most of the residents in those parishes undertake waste resource recovery and management practices near the disposal sites for survival alternatives. The study employed the following instruments; GPS location, measurement, questionnaire, checklist, observation, and recording. The data obtained from respondents was analysed in SPSS using descriptive statistics, while data from the location of disposal sites was analysed using ArcGIS for spatial analysis. The study adopted a descriptive case study research design were both qualitative and quantitative methods, and primary and secondary data were used to gain an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon and perceptions towards the potential of waste resource recovery and management practices at the disposal sites in Kawempe Division. The study revealed that the most practised waste recovery practice in Kawempe Division was material recovery, dominated by plastic waste; energy recovery was less practised. Therefore, the study recommends that there should be improvement in recycling technologies, incentive push in energy resource recovery, especially biogas production, improvement in waste sorting and practice of the 3Rs, awareness of waste recovery practices to appreciate the potential of waste resource recovery and proper management practices in reducing environmental pollution | en_US |
