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    "content": "Essentially, waste management is intended to reduce the adverse effects of waste on health and environment or aesthetics. We also know that waste management practices are not necessarily uniform across the regions, be they urban or rural areas; across different sectors such as residential or industrial; or even among countries, which could be developing or developed nations. Throughout most of history, the amount of waste generated by humans has always been insignificant due to low population density and low societal levels of the exploitation of natural resources. However, in Kenya, as in the rest of the world, our 45 million plus population needs urgent waste management measures due to the exploding population in the country. As we have moved around the country, we have seen that a lot of our urban streets have become choked with filth due to the lack of waste clearance regulations which will help in un-clogging the streets and making our areas healthy for habitation. Only focused regulations will sort out this mess. Thinking green and sustainability; when you think green you think of a world where there are so many clean alternative ways to produce power that the threat of exhausting our natural resources then is forever put to rest. This is a world where reduce, re-use and recycle becomes the catch phrase of every family and company in Kenya and where companies take a leadership position in investing in cleaner technologies so that our air pollution becomes a thing of the past. Hon. Senators, I move this motion well aware of our growing population and rapid urbanisation in our counties as more rural-urban migration is being witnessed. This is due to a very young population which is bulging in the middle. Our government set the first step to manage urbanisation when it initially set up the ministry of Metropolitan Development, which now has six counties around the capital City of Nairobi. Success and benefits of a rapidly urbanising country such as Kenya is at risk of choking from the waste of the very social-economic growth, hence the call through this Motion for proper frameworks in the form of regulations by the national government in managing urban waste. With those many remarks, I beg to move this Motion and request Sen. Seneta from Kajiado County to second it."
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