Overview 

Waste management and disposal services are still underdeveloped. The municipalities in the larger cities are responsible for waste management and collecting. In all big towns the collecting capacities are generally not sufficient, there is a lack of effective sensitization of people, undeveloped and uncontrolled rubbish dumps, lack of gutters and maintenance, and insufficient and unqualified human resources. The authorities also denounce the attitude and behaviour of the citizens on handling waste. The waste evacuation is done by municipal collecting or by depositing in wild rubbish dumps. Some people eliminate their waste by burning or dumping in the streets or in their houses. There is a recycling, treatment centre/programme in the country, but with a limited capacity.   

Hazardous Waste Disposal 

Hazardous waste is burned and supposed to be buried. The Sanitary police is responsible for authorizing the disposal and overseeing the process. The process seems to be mostly ad-hoc due to the lack of formalised procedures. Commonly a relatively secured area is selected, the waste burned with varying effort made to assure the destruction and left as debris. Treatment of industrial waste is left to the discretion of the company producing it. Rules and regulation are not well developed, and enforcement is not in place. Sewage water will in affluent areas be amassed in tankers and be collected for burying. In less affluent areas of cities there are open sewers.    

Non-Hazardous Waste Disposal 

Non-hazardous waste is either burned or put in open landfills. Disposal of food that is unfit for human and animal consumption is either buried or burned. For disposal of food items, authorisation is required from the sanitary police (the regulating agency) and the disposal will be done under the Government section supervision. 

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