dc.description.abstract | Solid waste management is increasingly becoming the biggest problem in many urban centers of
the world and central Uganda is no exception. The research mainly focused on domestic solid
waste. The two objectives that guided this research were; the prevalence of poor solid waste low
income households and the prevalence of poor waste related diseases among households. The
research made use of both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques in data analysis
during this study. The qualitative data collection techniques included; review of literature.
Quantitative data was analyzed using STATA 15 and both qualitative and quantitative data has
been merged to produce this report.
Results indicated that the prevalence of solid waste related diseases among the households at
kalerwe was low compared to those who never suffered from waste related diseases which make
the stated hypothesis for this objective false and the prevalence of solid waste related diseases
among the households at kalerwe was low compared to those who never suffered from waste
related diseases which make the stated hypothesis for this objective false.
Therefore unauthorized use of land must be controlled, accurate population data is necessary so
that waste management systems and infrastructure can be properly planned, environmental
education should be included in the school’s curriculum and Waste needs to be sorted at source
as much as possible, to reduce the amount requiring disposal and fines should be given to people
found disposing rubbish in sewages. | en_US |