Rotary Club of Limbe partners with Waste Advisors to sponsor a waste Management Project for Blantyre City

By Chisomo Phiri

The Rotary Club of Limbe (RCL) in Blantyre has made a partnership with Waste Advisors aims at sponsoring a project called Waste Management Project which help  cleaning up the Blantyre City.

In an interview with this Publication, President of Limbe Rotary Club  Daniel Dunga said the Waste Advisors are implementing an innovative project that collects wastes in all major markets of the Blantyre city, sorts the wastes at source and process the wastes into manure to improve soils. He said the RCL will sponsor the transportation of the wastes from markets to the processing site.

” At RCL, we will be providing vehicles that be used to carry the wastes from the  markets during  cleaning up exercise to the processing. We hope this partrnership will be very important to make our city clean”, Dunga.

President of Limbe Rotary Club  Daniel Dunga

Dunga the project they are implementing is very important as among others it improves environmental health situation in the markets, create economic value from the wastes, provide organic manure to the  smallholder farmers and  create job among youths.

” This is a nice project as smallholder farmers are   able to get organic manure from the wastes process and at the same time create jobs among the youth who are employed to work in the process site of the wastes”, he said.

He said each waste collection trip will be sponsored with K35,00  and that they will sponsor as many trips as possible for a period of a 1 year.