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ASPECTS REGARDING THE KINSHASA URBAN LANDFILLS ASSESSMENT AND PROPOSALS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT


HOLY HOLENU MANGENDA 1, VALENTIN NEDEFF 2, NARCIS BARSAN 2, EMILIAN FLORIN MOȘNEGUȚU 2, DANA CHITIMUS 2, DRAGOS RUSU 2
1. University of Kinshasa, P.O. Box 190, Democratic Republic of the Congo
2. “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Calea Marasesti 157, Bacau, 600115, Romania

Issue:

JESR, Number 1, Volume XXI

Section:

Issue Nr. 1 - Volume 21(2015)

Abstract:

Landfill management is one of the major issues in the application of sustainable development principles and ecological maintenance of the cities. Promoting their appreciation, and even more preventing for their minimization, are at the heart of many debates within the scientific community, local communities, companies and civil society. The city of Kinshasa is demographically growing much too fast, its capacity to manage the waste produced by 10000000 inhabitants is more than overwhelmed. The question is “WHAT CAN BE DONE?” Today it is acknowledged that these quantities of waste can be fruitfully put to use rather than looking at it simply like at a bothersome, congesting and polluting phenomenon. We have now to consider this above all a “secondary” raw materials resource. The problem is not the amount of waste, but the inability of governments and waste disposal companies to get rid of it. The city of Kinshasa seems today to have a certain disconnection from its environment because of the impacts of human actions these last fifty years. In addition to household refuse and pollution causing an unsanitary environment in most parts of the city, one particularly notes the consequences of uncontrolled urbanization and poor waste management, resulting in widespread insalubrity of the city. The present paper was assessed the situation regarding the urban landfills in Kinshasa by using field evaluation and population questioning.

Keywords:

urban landfills, waste, sustainable development.

Code [ID]:

JESR201501V21S01A0005 [0004275]

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