Allure of Dandora’s mega bucks garbage collection business

Dandora dumpsite

By KIBIWOTT KOROSS

Birds, pigs and locals rummage into a pile of garbage being dropped by a lorry at the Dandora dumpsite. Over 2,000 metric tonnes of waste are deposited daily at the 32 acre piece of land, and what initially was to be the refilling of an old quarry has given rise to an enormous mountain of garbage. “It is always so,” says Stephen Ngendo the truck driver; “we can’t stop them.”