Tanzania's waste collection campaign seeks to promote sustainable tourism

DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- "They are doing the right thing at the right time," said Shakira Athuman, a resident in Tanzania's port city of Dar es Salaam, of a cleanup campaign underway in the East African country.

Shakira, 17, who completed Form Four at Open Joy Secondary School in Mbweni in Dar es Salaam in December 2022, was paying tribute to The City Clean Tanzania campaign dedicated to collecting waste in the East African nation's tourism hotspots of Arusha and Dar es Salaam cities, Moshi municipality in Kilimanjaro region and Zanzibar Island.