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Klin Salone Waste Management Association
Wel bodi na gentri
c/o GTZ, 33 Frazer St, off Wilkinson Road, Freetown
(076) 944288, (033) 834361
www.klinsalone@hotmail.com
www.klin-salone.org
Who are we?
- Klin Salone is an umbrella organization that coordinates the activities of various
groups who are engaged in waste collection and disposal activities.
Our mission:
- Klin Salone is committed to providing convenient and affordable waste collection
services, while promoting sustainable employment for its members and a cleaner
future for Sierra Leone.
Why did Klin Salone form?
- Private collection services exist (groups, individuals, companies); however most
of them are not well organized, trained, or equipped
- Klin Salone formed to organize and build the capacity of existing groups to ensure
o Better service for customers
o Employment for youths
o Contribute to cleaning of the city
What does Klin Salone do?
- Klin Salone will provide training (environmental sanitation, hygienic execution of
job responsibilities, customer service, and business management skills, which are
crucial to providing reliable and accountable services. )
- Klin Salone will monitor the groups to ensure proper service
- Klin Salone will provide informational materials and some equipment for
member groups, with the support of donors. The health and safety of our
member groups are of utmost importance. With support from donors such as
GTZ, Klin Salone member groups are equipped with protective clothing to
defend themselves from the health hazards of handling solid waste.
- In the future, Klin Salone intends to coordinate the sorting and sales of solid
waste for recycling purposes (e.g. glass, metals, plastics)
What do Klin Salone member groups do?
- Member groups will collect waste from subscribing households, businesses and
institutions, using sturdy metal pushcarts.
- Subscribers can choose from different pick-up schedules (daily, three times per
week, weekly, or fortnightly) and two bin sizes (approximately 50 litres or 100
litres). Larger sizes and other services will be negotiable.
- Every effort will be made to provide reasonable, competitive prices to our
customers.
Where / When will we operate?
- Initially, from Lumley Village in the west to Calaba Town in the east.
- We hope to expand if the program is successful.
- We were engaged in 2006 in intensive planning activities and the training of our
member groups to ensure the provision of reliable, professional services
- We launched our activities in December 2006
- 42 groups are now actively operating in Freetown
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What to expect?
- Marketing Agents will be visiting homes and offices to offer waste collection
services. Please be patient with the Agents and give them your attention.
Suggestions are also welcome.
Why should you subscribe?
- You get convenient, reliable, and affordable waste collections services. No
more carrying that waste all the way down the street to the dirty-box!
- By subscribing to Klin Salone’s services, you are helping youths to find sustainable
employment in a professional system of waste management.
- You are also contributing to keeping your community and environment clean
Tell me more about recycling
- Environmental protection lies at the heart of waste management.
- Klin Salone intends to promote recycling in order to reduce waste
accumulation in dumpsites.
- Recycling or reusing materials also means that fewer materials have to be
manufactured in the first place. This means reduced damage to the
environment caused by the manufacturing process.
- Member groups will sort waste into recyclable or reusable materials. Klin Salone
seeks buyers for such materials, such as metals, glass, plastic, and compost.
- Klin Salone’s waste collection and sorting services help citizens fulfill their
responsibility to contribute to a cleaner environment.
- Klin Salone will continually monitor and improve its services and systems in order
to reduce the negative impacts of solid waste on the environment.
Relations with other actors / other aspects of waste management:
- Solid waste management has many components: Collection, Transportation,
Disposal, Recycling. Klin Salone is more involved in collection (and recycling).
- Klin Salone will liase with donors and authorities concerned with other aspects to
help work towards a better system
- Klin Salone provides a ‘voice’ to help customers and citizens communicate their
concerns to the people in charge of waste management
- However, Klin Salone’s main focus is providing professional waste collection
services to our customers
- German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) provides initial support in the form of
equipment, salaries, training, and coordination.
General appeals
- Klin Salone seeks potential support from donors to expand our activities in
Freetown and to other main cities in Sierra Leone
- Klin Salone seeks potential partners or buyers for sorted solid waste such as
glass, metals, plastics, and compost
- We hope that many of you reading this presentation will subscribe to
Klin Salone’s services to help improve the sanitation of Freetown and
promote employment for youths
- Klin Salone welcomes feedback and recommendations from the public to help us
improve our services.
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