The article focuses on hazardous waste exposure at Nairobi’s dumpsites, especially Dandora, where waste pickers like Duncan Njoroge live and work amid piles of mixed plastics, household refuse, and scrap metal.
The article highlights how a hazardous waste site in Wajir continues operating despite legal rulings, exposing residents to pollution and disease risks, and illustrating gaps between Kenya’s environmental commitments and real-world practice.
The the article describes how uncontrolled burning of waste in Kibera is creating toxic smoke that harms community health, and how grassroots efforts aim to reduce pollution and raise awareness despite limited resources.
Highlights Kenya's transitioning from environmentally harmful waste disposal toward sustainable, legally aligned systems that support the Bamako Convention. This includes new technologies, enforcement frameworks, and emerging legislation to better manage hazardous and electronic wastes
The audio highlights and breaks down how exposure to hazardous wealth since childhood copmntinue to harm the health outcomes in Kibera's informal settlements
The audio explains how unconrolled disposal of hazardous waste is harming health outcomes
This investigation documents how displaced families and low-income communities in Garowe, Puntland, Somalia are living beside informal dumping sites where municipal waste is mixed with hazardous materials such as medical sharps, batteries, and electronic waste. Through firsthand testimony, medical observations, and environmental context, the story examines the public health risks of unmanaged waste, highlights gaps in hazardous waste governance, and situates local realities within Somalia’s environmental policy framework and international obligations.
This article falls within the framework of the JHR scholarship for the fight against hazardous waste.
It evaluates Senegal's legal and institutional framework (Bamako Convention, 2020 law on the ban
of plastic importation and use in Senegal).
The video shares thye plight of individuals and communities living around Nairobi's major dumping site, Dandora, with negative health outcomes cited widely amidst the struggle for income, dignity and hope.