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Household Solid Waste and Climate Change in Bamako: Between Mitigation and Resilience


Authors : Kante Mamadou; Maiga Yacouba; Toure Boubacar Kola

Volume/Issue : Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 6 - June


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Abstract : Household solid waste is an inherent part of our lives, and its management is essential for our well-being and development. Unfortunately, we observe that its mismanagement in Bamako is detrimental to our health and environment. Waste management is currently a major challenge for all stakeholders, given the proliferation of unauthorized transit sites and the lack of a properly functioning final landfill. Consequently, the numerous transit sites that are supposed to be evacuated are becoming permanent. These stabilized transit sites then become tinderboxes, sometimes permanently burning, resulting from the open burning of waste of all types. This complete or incomplete combustion releases greenhouse gases (GHG) that directly contribute to global warming. In addition to the GHG emissions from open burning, uncontrolled methanization occurs from the fermentation of organic waste from transit sites that have been stabilized for over ten years. It goes unnoticed, but it produces CO2, nitrous gas, and methane, which is twenty-five to thirty times more harmful than CO2. This climate change indirectly contributes to natural disasters such as flooding in a city where homes and piles of solid waste are sometimes located in low-lying areas and obstructing rainwater drainage channels. At this rate, poor management of household solid waste jeopardizes the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG11: sustainable cities and communities) and SDG 13 (climate action). Based primarily on a qualitative study, the objective of this work is to elucidate whether household solid waste has an impact on climate change and flooding in Bamako in order to propose resilience and mitigation solutions.

Keywords : Bamako, Climate Change, Household Solid Waste, Mitigation, Resilience.

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Household solid waste is an inherent part of our lives, and its management is essential for our well-being and development. Unfortunately, we observe that its mismanagement in Bamako is detrimental to our health and environment. Waste management is currently a major challenge for all stakeholders, given the proliferation of unauthorized transit sites and the lack of a properly functioning final landfill. Consequently, the numerous transit sites that are supposed to be evacuated are becoming permanent. These stabilized transit sites then become tinderboxes, sometimes permanently burning, resulting from the open burning of waste of all types. This complete or incomplete combustion releases greenhouse gases (GHG) that directly contribute to global warming. In addition to the GHG emissions from open burning, uncontrolled methanization occurs from the fermentation of organic waste from transit sites that have been stabilized for over ten years. It goes unnoticed, but it produces CO2, nitrous gas, and methane, which is twenty-five to thirty times more harmful than CO2. This climate change indirectly contributes to natural disasters such as flooding in a city where homes and piles of solid waste are sometimes located in low-lying areas and obstructing rainwater drainage channels. At this rate, poor management of household solid waste jeopardizes the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG11: sustainable cities and communities) and SDG 13 (climate action). Based primarily on a qualitative study, the objective of this work is to elucidate whether household solid waste has an impact on climate change and flooding in Bamako in order to propose resilience and mitigation solutions.

Keywords : Bamako, Climate Change, Household Solid Waste, Mitigation, Resilience.

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