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    "content": "effective handling of waste in urban areas. Resultant chronic breathing and hazardous ailments will be cured through these regulations. As countries develop and populations increase, we have had stagnated or inadequate management of waste which has led to a lot of diseases, environmental degradation and ultimate impact on livelihoods. So, accumulated waste deposits are an indication of obviously the societal lifestyles, waste management practices and production technology. Various sectors of the economy generate different kinds of waste. For example, we have the wood, mechanical, chemical, medical, electrical, marine and textile industries. Manufacturing factory production areas also have a lot of waste generators. So, these regulations should comprehensively address these from production, transport to disposal of these wastes. Sound environmental management, therefore, will entail use of waste reduction technologies in production, sustainable product designs, resource efficiency and waste prevention. This will also lead to the reusing of products where possible, recovering value from products as improver management of waste poses a threat to climate change and eventually to the achievement of sustainable development. Waste being one of the contributors of greenhouse gases, it affects the climate. It is for this reason that we, a as a country, should develop sustainable waste management technologies and initiatives to curb this growing global challenge. Madam Temporary Speaker, in order to ensure a clean and healthy environment for all, Our 2010 Constitution provides under Article 42, the fundamental right to a clean and healthy environment. Articles 69 and 70 also underscore the need for a clean and sustainable environment. Part 2 of the Forth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya also explicitly provides that county governments shall be responsible for refuse removal, refuse dumps and solid waste disposal. Although elimination of waste, entirely, may not be feasible, systematic application of the modern waste management systems should be explored and implemented. This is what is happening with the phased-out process on plastics which I think is a great development for our country and a big step towards waste management. It already has resulted in positive results in our parks such as the Nairobi National Park, City Park, Karura Forest, Lake Naivasha as well as in the Mara Game Reserve. We are beginning to see a little bit of positive change. Waste management, however, poses the greatest challenge in Lamu County, especially in the Lamu Island where dumping in the sea is presenting a problem to fishermen and many other users of the sea in transport and research. We have also seen this become a big problem for the marine life as it becomes a threat to the marine life that we have in the sea. The challenge of waste management affects every person and institution in society. There exists a National Solid Waste Management Strategy 2014 that needs to be strengthened through the regulations by the national Government that this Motion is seeking to do. This strategy cannot be undertaken without a collective approach to waste challenges and the involvement of a broad range of stakeholders in their implementation. Madam Temporary Speaker, the remedy is the regulation on waste management in urban areas. Whereas the National Solid Waste Management Strategy seeks to establish a common platform for action between stakeholders to systematically improve"
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