Governance Challenges amid COVID-19: Exploring the Performance of Solid Waste Management Sector in Lahore
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2020
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
As per the senses of 2017, Pakistan’s population turns out to be 207.8 million making it 6th most populous
country in the world. Its rate of increase in population is 2.40 percent and it is highest in South Asia. With
rapid population increase and urbanization, annual waste generation is expected to increase by 70% from
2016 levels to 3.40 billion tonnes in 2050. The waste is either thrown into open places or is burned in low
income countries. Effective waste management is expensive, they might consume upto 50% of municpal
budget. An efficient, sustainable, and socially supported system should be integrated. To manage solid
waste safely has become a serious concern because it ultimately effects public health. Lahore is one of the
largest metropolitan cities of Pakistan since independence. In many areas, solid waste is simply dumped in
outskirts of city. As like developed countries, it is the need of time to think of green ways to reduce or reuse
the waste. The research is about solid waste management, its types and international practices of SWM
specifically domestic waste. It focuses on how the companies are putting efforts in SWM sector in Lahore
and what are there institutional hierarchies of those companies. The COVID-19 situations in Pakistan is
also discussed briefly. Moreover, its impacts on different sectors specifically SMW is keenly observed.
Waste Management is one of the most important sanitary barriers to prevent dissemination of illnesses and
diseases. It is important to recall that the continuity of the waste services is not only for municipal waste
but also for hazardous industrial and healthcare waste. The companies that are working for waste
management are always up for cleaning cities in their own domains. The companies like Abroo should be
encouraged so more people thing about inaugurating businesses with such intentions on public and private
sector. Further, the sanitary workers are performing well but they have lack of understanding against such
pandemics.