Public-private partnership on matters environment, Wakhungu agrees is the way to go.
“Look at how the West does it. They sort their garbage from the household level. Why can’t our garbage collectors adopt that, recycle the plastic and have an additional source of revenue right there?” she poses.
Steiner and Wakhungu both clearly aware of where the problems lie, as do the solutions. But to bring it back to Steiner’s opening remarks, “why isn’t it followed through?” Might it be a case of the environment always being someone else’s problem?
About The Author
With a decade of storytelling under her belt, Olive Burrows has been with Capital FM for the last four years and perhaps most notably interviewed US President Barack Obama. Committed to asking the hard questions and telling the story in the most engaging way possible, she has also interviewed Melinda Gates, a UK Minister and severally had the opportunity to sit across from President Uhuru Kenyatta and address the pressing issues of the day. Other notables she has had occasion to seek answers from are UN Secretary General António Guterres and John Kerry in his time as US Secretary of State.
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