Kiteezi took the city's waste until 9 August 2024, when the overfilled landfill collapsed after heavy rain and killed around 32 to 35 people, most of them waste-pickers and neighbours. A parliamentary inquiry found gross negligence, KCCA's Executive Director and her deputy were dismissed, and the site was ordered decommissioned. KCCA said in December 2025 that it had secured UGX 4.3 billion for compensation and paid 73 of 96 verified beneficiaries, and that ten acres of the Kiteezi site are being stabilised with support from the government of Japan and UN-Habitat.
Kampala generates about 2,500 tonnes of waste a day. KCCA's deputy Executive Director told Mpigi district leaders in January 2025 that after Kiteezi the city had to find emergency dumping sites, naming Katikolo and Nkumba. KCCA has since bought 230 hectares at Buyala in Mpigi District, at UGX 70 million an acre, for a permanent waste treatment and resource-recovery site it plans to bring into use in 2026. Over the same period it reported collection coverage across the city rising from 53% to 63%.
KCCA has not published which site a given zone's waste is taken to today, and its own "Waste Treatment and Disposal" page still describes the plan as it stood in 2016 and names a different site, so that page is not a guide to where your waste goes now.