Nairobi, Kenya’s City County Sub-Sector of Environment and Forestry, which tackles city’s waste management, has implemented a plan for improved integrated solid waste management. The plan involves eight programmes, including a collection and transportation plan, a 3R and intermediate treatment plan and a public participation promotion plan. The latter two focus on engaging citizens, emphasising their role in successful solid waste management and encouraging them to segregate their waste. Part of the plan includes an awareness campaign running on the slogan, ‘well managed waste is a resource’, which will aim to discourage illegal dumping. The programme will be initiated in one pilot area of the city and all eventually expand to other areas of the city.