Waste Management Outlook for Mountain Regions

Maseru, Lesotho. Photo © iStock/pg-images

Some barriers still remain for the effective implementation of the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan. These include having the necessary institutional capacity to contract, manage and monitor solid waste management service delivery

arrangements, basic technical and management capacity of service providers, policy enforcement, and public awareness and action to reduce, reuse and recycle waste.

According to the 2006 baseline assessment for the development of the Integrated Solid Waste Management System, the industrial sector accounts for one third of Maseru’s municipal solid waste. Maseru has a fairly large knitted textile industry which also produces hazardous wastes (University of Cape Town and UNEP, 2006). Photo © John Hogg, World Bank

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