BEAUTIFUL SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK UNDER WASTE MANAGEMENT

The whole national park from registration entrance tries to manage all wastes produced in the park together with the people visiting the park. The students had a chance to speak with various hosts who live around the park on how they handle their waste well since the animals in the park can be affected by the wastes produced by human beings to preserve the environment with its wastes despite it being a very large area with a lot of different guests and they still maintain its neatness.
Ensuring the environmental preservation and conservation inside and outside the park there are notices that have been placed around the hostels to ensure students maintaining the cleanliness of the environment when doing their tour by not littering plastic bottles and plastic bags since animals can eat them and be affected.
Dickson Novatus is a tour-guider who guided the students’ tour; he explained the Serengeti principles of managing waste and preserving the environment. He argued that all tourists who visits Serengeti national park are not allowed to dump any form of waste around the park because it is dangerous for wildlife. For those who will be discovered that they destroy the environment are supposed to pay fine of Tsh 500,000 as punishment for dumping waste around the park.
Emiliana Mringo, the hostel supervisor in the park when trying to answer the question on how they manage waste in the hostel, she said that the hostel place is the one which can never avoid the problem of waste since it is a destination area for tourists where they use for eating, cleaning and sleeping. By knowing that they have a way to manage waste which is to provide the dustbin then after collecting the dusts there is a car for taking them away from the park. “The area in the hostel is unavoidable in the problem of dust, simply because is the place where tourist do a lot of stuff like cleaning, eating and sleep. Therefore, by knowing that we have dustbins around the area for the collection of those dusts and finally there is a car for taking them out of the park,” Mringo addressed.
Emmanuel Jordan, a Serengeti tourist from Germany with his family enjoyed the technicalities applied by Serengeti national park management on environmental protection as he explained to the reporter. “With my family we enjoyed the park indeed, apart from touring on different parts in this park we have observed that in Tanzania especially in Serengeti national park there are best ways of protecting environment such as specified places for storing all plastic materials and also prohibition against unwanted waste throwing behaviors”.
Tourism is very responsible in the growth of national economy, and for a small share of waste generation such as in Europe and it contributes to about 6.7 % of total waste generation that arises from the wider services sector. And the ways to manage wastes are such as:
Reduce: whereby little wastes are created, reused, whereby here one is needed to consider where certain items can be reused, sold or donated to others that can use them. Sort, there is a need to have a system in place for sorting everyday waste items such as bottles, cans, cardboard and paper for recycling. Consider what else might be recycled, taking into account local disposal possibilities. Another way is recycling whereby one needs to send the sorted waste for recycling. This is according to the European Commission in 2010.
...Story by VITUS AUDAX