"Waste Management Regulations should respond to current environmental challenges"

To date, solid and liquid waste from oil exploration activities has largely been confined in consolidation sites in different areas within the Graben awaiting removal and transportation to designated areas of treatment and safe disposal. By 2014, Uganda’s solid and liquid drilling waste stockpiles, according to Tullow Oil and Total E&P, stood at 39,625 tons and 8227 cubic meters respectively...

...[P]etroleum waste management facilities must be placed away from residential areas, commercial areas, water bodies as well as farming and grazing areas. This is to avoid or minimize possible severe impacts on communities and wild life, arising from contact with petroleum waste...Given the hazardous nature of the petroleum waste, and the fragile nature of the Albertine Graben, there is urgent need to set a standard distance in view of the nature of waste in question, and sensitivity of the Area.

Relatedly, climatological characteristics including rainfall intensity and frequency, wind movement and others must be given due consideration in setting requirements for situating waste treatment and disposal facilities. For example, the districts of Hoima and Kibaale which experience more severe winds during the rainy seasons are likely to facilitate quick transfer of air and surface pollutants to nearby and far-away places compared to districts of Buliisa, Nwoya, Amuru and Nebbi. Transportation of waste- including the nature of roads, nature of transporting vehicles and vessels, as well as cleaning of waste handling equipment and possibility of mixture of water used for cleaning equipment and run-off water during rainy seasons must be addressed.