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| Corrupt actors | Nature of corruption | Impact on waste management |
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| Driver, turn boys, and garbage sorters | Illegal sale of sorted garbage | Results in direct loss of revenue for the council as the money generated is taken by drivers, sorters, and turn boys and increased costs from truck breakdowns and fuel. Neglecting collection of garbage from which they can extract corrupt profits causes garbage overflowing in some areas |
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| Bureaucrats | Illegal sale of public land, falsification of documents, inflating procurement costs, direct embezzlement of public procurement funds, false accounting | The hundreds of millions of lost public money could be used to buy garbage trucks and skips, hire more workers, pay for repairs, and even acquire more land in different divisions for dumping garbage. Most of these are not done because money and other resources are corruptly utilized |
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| Land grabbers | Encroached and grabbed dumping site land | Foiled the much needed investment in waste management as investors could not build plant on contested land. |
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| Politicians | Inadequate supervision of workers (drivers, turn boys, and sorters); inadequate monitoring of factory/hospital owners; refuse to enforce Mbarara municipality waste management byelaws for their own political reasons | Inadequate supervision of driver’s means that they focus on collecting what is easy to sell and ignore the unprofitable garbage making some areas suffer from garbage. This has also allowed drivers to transport garbage to far distances costing council a lot of money in fuel and frequent truck break down. Inadequate supervision or taking of bribes from factory/hospital operators has resulted in indiscriminate dumping of deadly industrial and medical waste. |
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| Factory/hospital owners | Dump their industrial/medical waste in public land, forests, or garbage skips meant for the general municipal solid waste | Pollute very sensitive areas such as rivers and swamps. |
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