IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jwaste/v1y2023i2p24-413d1120745.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Coverage Rates in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Muyiwa Lawrence Adedara

    (Institute for Ecosystem Research, University of Kiel, Olshausenstraße 75, 24118 Kiel, Germany)

  • Ridwan Taiwo

    (Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

  • Hans-Rudolf Bork

    (Institute for Ecosystem Research, University of Kiel, Olshausenstraße 75, 24118 Kiel, Germany)

Abstract

The annual volume of waste generated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) increased from 81 million tonnes to 174 million tonnes per year between 2012 and 2016 and is projected to reach 269 million tonnes in 2030. In 2018, SSA’s municipal solid waste (MSW) collection coverage was estimated at 44%. Concerned that the waste generation rate outweighs the collection pace, we conducted a systematic review of studies on MSW collection to examine the current situation in the region concerning the waste collection and coverage rates and to highlight the impediments to rapid progress in waste collection using the lens of four cities. Findings reveal that, despite the involvement of private waste collectors, collection and coverage rates are still below the desired 100% with backlogs of uncollected waste in public spaces, especially in low-income neighbourhoods where coverage remains abysmally low. This study fortifies the systematic discussion on MSW collection and coverage rates by conducting a meta-analysis. The result of the analysis shows that the waste collection and coverage rates are 65% and 67% in SSA, respectively. Aside from the paucity of data on waste generation rate and characterisation, most available data are incongruent. The review further shows that although several studies have been carried out on waste disposal, waste treatment and recycling in SSA studies directly focused on MSW collection are still few, leaving room for more research in this area. The review offers suggestions on how collection and coverage rates can be increased and equally proposes a strategy for reducing scavenging activities in the region’s unsanitary landfills, given its concomitant health impacts on the scavengers.

Suggested Citation

  • Muyiwa Lawrence Adedara & Ridwan Taiwo & Hans-Rudolf Bork, 2023. "Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Coverage Rates in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," Waste, MDPI, vol. 1(2), pages 1-25, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jwaste:v:1:y:2023:i:2:p:24-413:d:1120745
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2813-0391/1/2/24/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2813-0391/1/2/24/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Scarlat, N. & Motola, V. & Dallemand, J.F. & Monforti-Ferrario, F. & Mofor, Linus, 2015. "Evaluation of energy potential of Municipal Solid Waste from African urban areas," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 1269-1286.
    2. Charles H. K. Lam & Alvin W. M. Ip & John Patrick Barford & Gordon McKay, 2010. "Use of Incineration MSW Ash: A Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 2(7), pages 1-26, July.
    3. Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere & Emmanuel Harris & Ebenezer Bonyah, 2013. "Forecasting and Planning for Solid Waste Generation in the Kumasi Metropolitan Area of Ghana: An ARIMA Time Series Approach," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(04), pages 69-83, April.
    4. Kwaku Oduro-Appiah & Abraham Afful & Victor Neequaye Kotey & Nanne De Vries, 2019. "Working with the Informal Service Chain as a Locally Appropriate Strategy for Sustainable Modernization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems in Lower-Middle Income Cities: Lessons from Accra, G," Resources, MDPI, vol. 8(1), pages 1-16, January.
    5. Ljiljana Rodić & David C. Wilson, 2017. "Resolving Governance Issues to Achieve Priority Sustainable Development Goals Related to Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-18, March.
    6. Lemesa Hirpe & Chunho Yeom, 2021. "Municipal Solid Waste Management Policies, Practices, and Challenges in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(20), pages 1-16, October.
    7. Matheri, A.N. & Ndiweni, S.N. & Belaid, M. & Muzenda, E. & Hubert, R., 2017. "Optimising biogas production from anaerobic co-digestion of chicken manure and organic fraction of municipal solid waste," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 756-764.
    8. Victor Owusu & Joseph Boaheng & Cecilia Sundberg, 2011. "Are households willing to pay for full-cost solid waste collection? Evidence from Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 1(2), pages 144-153, June.
    9. Jeroen Beliën & Liesje De Boeck & Jonas Van Ackere, 2014. "Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Management Problems: A Literature Review," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 48(1), pages 78-102, February.
    10. Abdesamad Zouine & Pierre Fenies, 2014. "The Critical Success Factors Of The ERP System Project: A Meta-Analysis Methodology," Post-Print hal-01419785, HAL.
    11. Mar Carlos-Alberola & Antonio Gallardo Izquierdo & Francisco J. Colomer-Mendoza & Esther Barreda-Albert, 2021. "Design of a Municipal Solid Waste Collection System in Situations with a Lack of Resources: Nikki (Benin), a Case in Africa," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-12, February.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Salifou Ndam & Alirou Fit Touikoue & Jérôme Chenal & Jean-Claude Baraka Munyaka & Armel Kemajou & Abdou Kouomoun, 2023. "Urban Governance of Household Waste and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Study from Yaoundé (Cameroon)," Waste, MDPI, vol. 1(3), pages 1-19, July.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Awasthi, Mukesh Kumar & Sarsaiya, Surendra & Wainaina, Steven & Rajendran, Karthik & Kumar, Sumit & Quan, Wang & Duan, Yumin & Awasthi, Sanjeev Kumar & Chen, Hongyu & Pandey, Ashok & Zhang, Zengqiang , 2019. "A critical review of organic manure biorefinery models toward sustainable circular bioeconomy: Technological challenges, advancements, innovations, and future perspectives," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 115-131.
    2. Mukherjee, C. & Denney, J. & Mbonimpa, E.G. & Slagley, J. & Bhowmik, R., 2020. "A review on municipal solid waste-to-energy trends in the USA," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    3. Bablu K. Ghosh & Saad Mekhilef & Shameem Ahmad & Swapan K. Ghosh, 2022. "A Review on Global Emissions by E-Products Based Waste: Technical Management for Reduced Effects and Achieving Sustainable Development Goals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-19, March.
    4. Monika Czop & Beata Łaźniewska-Piekarczyk, 2019. "Evaluation of the Leachability of Contaminations of Fly Ash and Bottom Ash from the Combustion of Solid Municipal Waste before and after Stabilization Process," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(19), pages 1-16, September.
    5. Rajaeifar, Mohammad Ali & Sadeghzadeh Hemayati, Saeed & Tabatabaei, Meisam & Aghbashlo, Mortaza & Mahmoudi, Seyed Bagher, 2019. "A review on beet sugar industry with a focus on implementation of waste-to-energy strategy for power supply," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 423-442.
    6. Meng, Xiangmei & de Jong, Wiebren & Kudra, Tadeusz, 2016. "A state-of-the-art review of pulse combustion: Principles, modeling, applications and R&D issues," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 73-114.
    7. Tharun Dolla & Boeing Laishram, 2019. "Bundling in public–private partnership projects – a conceptual framework," International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 69(6), pages 1177-1203, December.
    8. Makarichi, Luke & Jutidamrongphan, Warangkana & Techato, Kua-anan, 2018. "The evolution of waste-to-energy incineration: A review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 812-821.
    9. Batyr Orazbayеv & Saya Santeyeva & Ainur Zhumadillayeva & Kanagat Dyussekeyev & Ramesh K. Agarwal & Xiao-Guang Yue & Jiangchuan Fan, 2019. "Sustainable Waste Management Drilling Process in Fuzzy Environment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(24), pages 1-22, December.
    10. Ao, Tianjie & Chen, Lin & Chen, Yichao & Liu, Xiaofeng & Wan, Liping & Li, Dong, 2021. "The screening of early warning indicators and microbial community of chicken manure thermophilic digestion at high organic loading rate," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 224(C).
    11. repec:eco:journ2:2017-04-36 is not listed on IDEAS
    12. Ming Tang & Huchang Liao & Zhengjun Wan & Enrique Herrera-Viedma & Marc A. Rosen, 2018. "Ten Years of Sustainability (2009 to 2018): A Bibliometric Overview," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-21, May.
    13. Hao Yu & Wei Deng Solvang, 2016. "An Improved Multi-Objective Programming with Augmented ε -Constraint Method for Hazardous Waste Location-Routing Problems," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-21, May.
    14. Koppiahraj Karuppiah & Bathrinath Sankaranarayanan & Syed Mithun Ali, 2023. "Towards Sustainability: Mapping Interrelationships among Barriers to Circular Bio-Economy in the Indian Leather Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-26, March.
    15. Ogunjuyigbe, A.S.O. & Ayodele, T.R. & Alao, M.A., 2017. "Electricity generation from municipal solid waste in some selected cities of Nigeria: An assessment of feasibility, potential and technologies," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 149-162.
    16. Vincent F. Yu & Panca Jodiawan & Shih-Wei Lin & Winy Fara Nadira & Anna Maria Sri Asih & Le Nguyen Hoang Vinh, 2024. "Using Simulated Annealing to Solve the Multi-Depot Waste Collection Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window and Self-Delivery Option," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-22, February.
    17. Rajaeifar, Mohammad Ali & Ghanavati, Hossein & Dashti, Behrouz B. & Heijungs, Reinout & Aghbashlo, Mortaza & Tabatabaei, Meisam, 2017. "Electricity generation and GHG emission reduction potentials through different municipal solid waste management technologies: A comparative review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 414-439.
    18. Asif Iqbal & Abdullah Yasar & Abdul-Sattar Nizami & Rafia Haider & Faiza Sharif & Imran Ali Sultan & Amtul Bari Tabinda & Aman Anwer Kedwaii & Muhammad Murtaza Chaudhary, 2022. "Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Haulage Modeling Design for Lahore, Pakistan: Transition toward Sustainability and Circular Economy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-39, December.
    19. del Valle-Zermeño, Ricardo & Barreneche, Camila & Cabeza, Luisa F. & Formosa, Joan & Fernández, A. Inés & Chimenos, Josep M., 2016. "MSWI bottom ash for thermal energy storage: An innovative and sustainable approach for its reutilization," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 431-436.
    20. Di Maria, Francesco & Sisani, Federico & Norouzi, Omid & Mersky, Ronald L., 2019. "The effectiveness of anaerobic digestion of bio-waste in replacing primary energies: An EU28 case study," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 347-354.
    21. Oukula Obsa & Menfese Tadesse & Dong-Gill Kim & Zeleke Asaye & Fantaw Yimer & Mersha Gebrehiwot & Nicolas Brüggemann & Katharina Prost, 2022. "Organic Waste Generation and Its Valorization Potential through Composting in Shashemene, Southern Ethiopia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-19, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jwaste:v:1:y:2023:i:2:p:24-413:d:1120745. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.