The Nairobi County government has introduced franchising to ensure uniform standards of cleanliness across all zones within the city.
This is according to a statement from the county management published in 'Nairobi Today,' a magazine owned and published by the Kidero-led government.
The new environmental will streamline waste management systems by conducting regular street sweeping, waste collection from estates and transportation elements with the target area being low-class residential areas like Kibera that have long lived without well established dumping sites, a fact that has rendered almost all the estates as litter points.
The county’s environment department now says it has hired enough garbage collection contractors to conduct rigorous exercises that are geared towards changing the face of the city.
Over the past successive years, the capacities of garbage collectors have not been sufficient enough to clear all the wastes generated across the various residential areas. As such, lots of garbage has been left to accumulate releasing stinky smells that have rendered the nearby areas almost uninhabitable.
The department further expresses that it has procured additional garbage collection trucks that have, in turn, increased its fleet from thirteen to forty-three vehicles.