ABSTRACT
Municipalities in African cities continue to struggle with waste management, which is mainly due to the quantities of waste produced, compounded by insufficient and unsustainable methods of waste disposal. This chapter shows how waste from the hospitality subsector in Livingstone enters the waste stream and contributes to the risks caused by municipal waste. It analyses the different types of waste produced by the subsector and highlights the deficiencies of the different strategies used to dispose of hospitality waste. At present, the local authority, the Livingstone City Council, uses an open dumpsite, which is unsustainable and can cause risks that negatively affect urban tourism. The chapter considers hospitality waste in view of sustainable waste management and critically analyses the approaches used to dispose of waste generated by the hospitality subsector in Livingstone. Tourism appears to be a heavy producer of waste that pollutes soils and water bodies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation.
