The
problem is compounded by the inability by a large percentage or urban community to pay
for waste collection services due to low income levels in the EAC region. Therefore
households not served by waste collection have developed their own waste management
systems. The most common household waste management methods identified are waste
burning and backyard burying or indiscriminate open dumping (Liyala 2011; Oberlin, 2011;
Okot-Okumu & Nyenje 2011; Simon, 2007).