Joel Ogwang
4 April 2006
Kampala — THE World Bank has released $5.1m (about sh9.3b) for erecting garbage-recycling plants in 17 town councils and municipalities.
Jack Ruitenbeek, the bank's senior environmental and development economist, said the plants would be built in two phases.
"Under the 10-year project, about nine plants will be built in the first phase," he said during his tour of the eight-acre Mukono town garbage site on Wednesday.
Gerald Musoke, National environmental Management authority (NEMA) deputy executive director, said areas with much garbage would be short-listed.
"This is a business project. We will consider districts that have many tonnage of garbage to sustain and keep the plants running all year round," he said.
Musoke said applicants should identify land on which the plants would be erected, adding that all other expenses had been met.
He urged short-isted beneficiaries to buy more garbage skips and bins and locate them strategically to collect refuse.
Josiah Serunjogi, the town council engineer, said the project would create employment for the town dwellers and rid the town of filth.
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