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State bans projects at new Makuyu dumpsite

Muranga Governor Mwangi wa Iria. His government has published an intention to prepare a zoning plan for the landfill. [File, Standard]

Developments near a proposed waste disposal site in Makuyu have been suspended.

According to the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Murang’a County government, the site is Kenya’s first landfill - a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial - and will serve the Nairobi metropolitan area.

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