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Residents of Dandora, Nairobi Kenya rush to salvage waste materials near an excavator. [File, Standard]
Embakasi, one of the expansive estates in Nairobi, is still grappling with waste management, with garbage piling every second owing to its population and several businesses lining up main and access roads in the neighbourhood.
Between April and June 2026, alone about 1,170 truckloads of garbage were collected in the estate according to statistics by the Nairobi County environment department.
The report says that, in the same period, 1,011 truckloads of waste were removed around Kware, and a total of 679 truckloads of waste were collected from four collection points in the Kasarani area alone.
