With current drainage systems, entire urban homes will disappear

Of all the improvements that local authorities perform on a piece of land earmarked for urban development, drainage systems seem to receive the least attention. This is more clearly visible especially in all newer residential areas. Storm water drains that were built in the 1990s and before, when the country was more economically stable, were more reliable than those built later on. In other instances, no drainage systems were built at all, and such cases are many in all unplanned suburbs associated with the illegal activities of land barons. With severe floods posing a bigger danger to human habitats in […]

Does Zimbabwe need heavy-handedness to be clean?

It is shockingly outrageous that most people of Zimbabwe are senseless litterbugs who do not see anything wrong in chucking beer bottles out of the windows of their cars when driving on the highways , people who do not hesitate to throw empty plastic bottles anywhere on the ground. Zimbabwe’s urban environment is by all measures one of the dirtiest in the whole world and it is a shame that a society which misses no chance to boast of the high levels of education among its people sees nothing wrong in polluting its physical surroundings. The filth that pervades the […]

Instead of plastic bags, rather ban plastic bottles

The plan by authorities to ban the use of plastic carrier bags by December 2022 will do very little to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. By our own estimates, plastic bags amount to less than 10 percent of all improperly-disposed plastic waste in the country’s physical environment. It is clear that what chokes rivers, drainage systems, pavements, streets and the wider landscape are plastic bottles. There is no question about that at least in the context of Zimbabwe. People in this country hardly throw away plastic bags after getting home with their groceries or whatever they […]