Africa’s Urban Waste Management and Sanitation Challenges: Are Transfer Stations the Solution?

Bob O. Manteaw, Johannes Boachie
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Africa’s urbanization processes are seen as both a challenge and an opportunity for sustainable development. While these processes unfold differently in diverse countries across the continent, it has become increasingly apparent that surge urbanization, population growth and the lack of effective planning for an efficient waste management system have brought in its wake other challenges that have significant implications for public health and sustainable development. Thus, much as urbanization has the potential to drive Africa’s growth and sustainable development agenda, current happenings in most of Africa’s cities, in particular, also signal the negative impact of rapid and unplanned urbanization on sustainable development processes. Waste and sanitation management have become an enduring urban challenge across Africa. They come with significant cost to people and governments and as the search for lasting solutions continue, Waste Transfer Stations have emerged as an efficient management technology which has been embraced and deployed in some countries. While it has received praises in some quarters as an innovative technology, there is concern that such praises have muted critical issues of pollution, odor nuisance, cultural incompatibility and public health challenges, which, for the most part, are unrecognized or underestimated. The question then becomes: are Waste Transfer Stations the solution to Africa’s urban waste and sanitation challenges?
非洲城市垃圾管理和卫生挑战:中转站是解决方案吗?
非洲的城市化进程被视为可持续发展的挑战和机遇。虽然这些进程在非洲大陆不同国家的发展情况不同,但越来越明显的是,城市化的迅速发展、人口增长和缺乏有效的废物管理系统规划,带来了对公共卫生和可持续发展具有重大影响的其他挑战。因此,尽管城市化有可能推动非洲的增长和可持续发展议程,但非洲大多数城市目前发生的情况也表明,快速和无计划的城市化对可持续发展进程产生了负面影响。废物和卫生管理已成为整个非洲城市面临的一项持久挑战。它们给人民和政府带来了巨大的成本,随着寻求持久解决办法的继续,废物转运站已成为一种有效的管理技术,已在一些国家得到接受和部署。虽然它在某些方面被称赞为一种创新技术,但有人担心,这种赞扬掩盖了污染、气味骚扰、文化不相容和公共卫生挑战等关键问题,这些问题在很大程度上没有得到承认或低估。那么问题就变成了:垃圾转运站能解决非洲城市垃圾和卫生问题吗?
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