By Daily News Reporter in Dodoma
THE government has
developed guidelines on waste recycling in order to encourage more
business operators to invest in the industry, a move that will help
improve waste management in
urban areas.
Health, Community
Development, Gender, Elderly and Children Minister, Ms Ummy Mwalimu made
the disclosure here during a recent summit on sanitation which brought
together regional and council officers for sanitation from across the
country.
"The new guidelines
will encourage more business operators to invest in waste recycling to
improve waste management," she said while delivering an opening speech
at the sanitation summit.
Ms Mwalimu further
informed that the government had registered massive achievements in
sanitation, thanks to nationwide campaign titled 'Usichukulie Poa,
Nyumba ni Choo', after households with standard toilets increased to
62.4 per cent in 2019 from 34 per cent in 2015.
"In two years of
the campaign, a number of households with standard toilets have
tremendously increased. Likewise, a number of households without
standard toilets has diminished from7.5 per cent to 1.9 per cent this
year," said the Minister during the summit.
The nationwide
campaign encourages households to put up standard toilets in order to
prevent water borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery.
The diseases can be spread while bathing, washing and drinking water or by eating food exposed to contaminated water.
As for rural areas,
the minister said households with standard toilets in rural areas have
increased to 4,311 from only 743, adding that 1,267 health facilities
have improved toilets with sanitation.
"I want to thank
key sanitation stakeholders for joining hands with the government in
carrying out the campaign. Our target is to attain 75 per cent by June,
2021," she observed.
Ms Mwalimu further said that the fifth phase government was committed to improve garbage dumping sites in urban areas.
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