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Authorities at Kabale Municipal Council are seeking Shs1b to revamp the garbage recycling plant on Kirengyere Hill in Kyanamira Sub-county.

They are also looking for approximately Shs550m to acquire a larger piece of land to be used as a garbage collection centre.

During a press conference at the weekend, the Kabale Municipal Council Mayor, Mr Byamugisha Sentaro, said the council is yet to partner with the private service providers interested in recycling plastic materials that are dumed at the Kirengyere garbage collecting centre.

“We need about Shs1b to revamp our garbage recycling plant at Kirengyere where organic waste materials are turned into manure after separating them from plastic materials. We also need about Shs550m to buy land that will serve as the garbage collecting centre because the current collecting centre that we have on Kirengyere hill is too small to accommodate the huge volumes of garbage collected from Kabale town every day,” Mr Byamugisha said.

The Kyanamira Sub-county chairman, Mr Deus Kamugisha, said the existence of the garbage recycling plant on Kirengyere hill has become a health risk to the people and appealed to the Kabale Municipal Council authorities to speed up the process of relocating it.

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