Dumpsites

Most urban rivers in Malawi turn into dumpsites as they split densely populated markets and settlements.

Buried natural materials at dumpsites produce highly flammable gases, posing a risk of spontaneous combustion.

Tens of thousands of tons of residential waste have been accumulating in the streets and informal dumpsites, due to the shortage of fuel needed to operate waste management machinery.

According to them, the dumpsites had always been breeding grounds for mosquitoes, causing malaria and cholera among other diseases.

By A Correspondent- The government has embarked on a programme to remove all illegal dumpsites across the country in a bid to keep the environment clean and prevent the outbreak of diseases such as cholera and typhoid.

Great piles of unsorted British plastics have been left to rot on illegal dumpsites with much of it sat near split UK council recycling bags.

On the streets, behind bushes, in groves of trees, in rivers or streams, inside gutters, dumpsites, in motor parks, markets and what have you, people use faeces to litter the environment with impunity.

Zambia, especially the capital city, generates a lot of waste, but most of it was not getting to the designated dumpsites.

Carter acknowledged that several more "Love Canals" existed across the country, and that discovering such hazardous dumpsites was "one of the grimmest discoveries of our modern era".

Laboratory Management & Operations Around LANL's 43-square-mile property are 2,000 dumpsites which have permanently contaminated the environment.