The study established that garbage was reused in households in several ways include; fetching and storing water (60%), vegetable gardening (14%) and storing other liquids like kerosene and used oil (37%). The result also showed that most of the respondents (34%) indicated that the household garbage collected was disposed of in the rubbish pits for burning, followed by 30% who disposed the garbage in empty plots or by the road side, 18% at the collecting centres, 15% in landfills, and lastly 3% who indicated others. The other disposal methods included throwing the garbage in running water streams and sewers. Factors that mostly affected household garbage management were
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