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"content": "First of all, we need to ask ourselves some questions; what do we mean by waste management? Do we understand; and if we understand, what message are we supposed to pass to our people or the public? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is much more to waste control than picking up rubbish and jettisoning it into a dumpsite. Although there is an urgent step in the midst, but there is more to it than we think about. Waste product management flows in a cycle of monitoring, collection, transport, processing, disposal and then, at the end of the day, it is recycled. This is supposed to be taken into account and everybody should understand these processes so that we keep our country clean. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, effective waste management is dependent upon achievement of informed consensus among interested parties. Public concerns and opposition present a challenge to this consensus, which must be tackled. There has been an understanding of the basis of public concerns about waste management activities and suggestions of some means for dealing with this issue. The national Government should make efforts to establish a better understanding of the complexity of concerns which are based not upon risk perceptions, but also a lack of trust and credibility in waste management. In waste management, there is decision makers, decision processes and control mechanisms for waste facilities, settings and operations. Without proper waste management, contamination of land and underlying sources of commodities will continue to escalate beyond management levels. The next stages of contamination may also lead to various health related concerns and diseases. Proper disposal of waste should ideally begin in you and I, because it is an issue that is supposed to be handled by all of us. Households that practice proper disposal of waste help in preventing the occurrence and spreading of diseases, and in getting rid of accumulated and unsightly garbage in their storage bins. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issue of waste management is supposed to be dealt with the same way we deal with HIV/AIDS. First, we need to deal with behaviour change and communication, where the issue is supposed to be taken seriously, to be addressed at all levels right from the children, households, policy makers and implementers. We can have good policies but we, as good policy makers and policy implementers, go against it. I want to use an example where I managed to attend a two- month training programme in Japan, and I left the country a changed person because most of the time, people were on my back telling me: “O, Madam, can you pick your rubbish?” because I am used to throwing rubbish anyhowly in Kenya. In Japan, it is the concern of every citizen to keep the town clean. Even in hotels, you do not just eat carelessly and leave the table untidy; you leave the table the way you found it and you keep every place clean. Sometimes I fail to understand, especially we normally say the ‘big offices’ or the washrooms; especially we, the people with disabilities, fail to understand and it becomes a problem when you go to a washroom and you find that people have messed it up. You ask yourselves: “If they can do this in a public washroom, what about where they stay?” So, it is the business of everybody to keep the issue of management at their finger tips, and address it at every level. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issue of water catchments, natural resources and the water banks; when I was a young girl in our village, I used to see people keep some The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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