ICC presentations at the MaFAAS week

2. ‘Create a waste management
strategy’
‘Implement
recycling
management
systems’
‘Sensitization and education’
‘Promote creative
innovations
to manage waste’
‘Removal of
millions of tons of
waste’
‘Improve the environment ’

3. Educational site surveys
• Questionnaires
• On site - statistics
• Graphs
• Environmental Debates
ICC Malawi
Competitions
• Biggest plastic football
• Plastic bag bottle
competition
• Cleanliness award at schools
• Upcycling competition
We will construct using recycling materials
Recycling points
constructed in strategic
places
EDUCATION / RESEARCH CLEAN UP / RECYCLING

4. International research about waste
‘If you throw away your aluminum cans, they can stay in that
can form for up to 500 years or more- so recycling is the way
to go’
‘Around 1000 children die in India every year due to diseases caused from the polluted water’
‘Fresh water in the world is only 2.5% of the total
water available on this planet’
‘80% of the water pollution is caused due to domestic
sewage like throwing garbage on open ground and
water bodies’
‘Different kinds of plastic can degrade at different times, but the average time for a plastic bottle to
completely degrade is at least 450 years. It can even take some bottles 1000 years to biodegrade!’
Dominican Republic 2012
Ghana

5. Waste implications in Malawi
‘There were no plastics 45 years ago. More costs go into cleaning
the water now than ever before’.
Chief of Area 3: worked at Waterboard from 1965 to 2010
Lilongwe 670,000 people 2010. 1,098,200 people 2016.
Lilongwe is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. With
growth comes major challenges dealing with waste management.
ICC Malawi, Lilongwe 2016
‘Unused tobacco stems and the tobacco manufacturing process
produces liquid, solid and airborne wastes, some of which are
potential environmental hazards and may even pollute surface and
ground waters’
Gunatilaka, 2006; 226 Mumba, P. P. and Phiri, R. Novonty and Zhao, 1999;
USGS, 2005
Monitoring and evaluation office of community servings
investment promotion statics show that in 2010 the city generated
109 tonnes of solid waste per day; of the total, 15% derives from
industries, 25% from commercial areas, 20% from hospitals and
40% from residential areas.
‘Waste bins are not located at strategic points within the city’
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295224
Chancy Namadzunda. Lilongwe, Malawi. 2010
City Centre

6. The history of waste in Lilongwe
Photo of Lilongwe River
2014
Photo of Lilongwe River January 2016

7. City Centre site survey
This is a graph to show the facilities used
for people to manage waste in the city
centre
This is a graph to show the quantities of
waste found in people’s homes in the
city centre

8. City area 1
Road traffic ½ paper
0.2 Plastics
Metal
FDH Bank 0.25 paper
FMB bank 0.25 paper
0.1 plastics
NBS 0.5 paper 0.25
plastics
CITY assembly 0.25
paper
0.1 plastics
Restaurants 0.5 paper
0.5 plastic

9. City area 2
Department of
Information 0.25
paper 0.2 plastics 0.1
metal and glass
Spar 1 paper 1.5
plastics 0.3 metal 0.25
glass
Tyre fitters 0.25 paper
0.25 plastics
National library 0.5
paper 0.25 plastics 0.1
metal bottle tops
Bunda turnoff

10. City area 3
Water board
tests prove water
is heavily
polluted
New financial
bank 0.5 paper
0.25 plastic

11. This graph shows the 3 most problem wastes from questionnaires
in the City Centre and how we can use this waste
Bottles used for beds
and irrigation
Bottle built
compost
toilet
Plastic weaved items
Making recycled
paper

12. Cape Maclear site survey
Key
Homes
Lodges

13. Waste quantities found in Cape Maclear
This graph
shows the
quantities of
waste from
people’s
homes
This graph
shows the
facilities used
to manage
the waste

14. Msonga Village
Plastics and paper
Glass and metal

15. Preferences for Cape Maclear recycling
This graph shows the types and
quantities of waste that came out of the
lodges
This graph shows the types and
quantities of waste from peoples homes
Tin bats
Flower tins
Briquette paper making and bottle building at Heed
Centre
A resident weaving plastics Food waste is good for compost
Uses for tins

16. Never Underestimate the Power of
Waste
Environmental Video

17. 7 out of 8 Millennium
Development Goals
Bringing skills and employment gives an income
Environmental sensitization and education
Developing women’s groups with ideas to reuse and recycle
Cleaning the waters and therefore reducing chance of disease
Environmental sensitization and education
Linking everyone and implementing a holistic approach

18. Solutions
Educate, Clean up & Recycle
‘If you throw away your aluminium cans, they can
stay in that can form for up to 500 years or more- so
recycling is the way to go’
‘Recycling is nothing but process of using old or waste
products into new products’
‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’
‘Composting and recycling alone have prevented 85
million tons of waste to be dumped in 2010’ When working with nature things
should move in a circle

19. These will be the descriptions
on each bin as to what
happens with the waste,
giving details of all community
initiatives it supports.
It will be important to state
the community groups, doing
what activity, so people can
understand it will be beneficial
to use the recycling bins.

20. Solutions for Cape Maclear
• Involve all chiefs to adhere to using one
waste collection system altogether
• Use all community groups and schools to
educate them in environmental matters
and how waste is valuable
• Have an environmental animation video
in all video shops
• Build a recycling point
• Place 20 recycle bins on the front side of
Cape Maclear. These will be collected and
managed by 2 people.
• Support existing recycling initiatives and
implement new ones to use waste
materials
• Promote and sell recycled objects in all
lodges
• Organise workshops to design and build
devices useful for the villages with all
community groups
Recycle bins locations
Briquette makers from Chembe village

21. How to make compost step by step
guides and laminated sheets around
the village. Write the benefits of
compost and give examples to grow
food so people can see it works
How to make briquettes step by step
guides and laminated sheets around
the village
Workshops with materials to design
and build useful efficient devices
Using waste that will compliment and
ease people’s lives in the village
This will give people good incentives to
collect and recycle more waste

22. Cape Maclear can be our model village
which we intend to advertise and use
as an example
We will then start new site surveys and
research in different locations
There may be different waste and
other needs that can be developed
with the communities

23. Other initiatives: Lake Of Stars in Chintheche, Nkhata Bay
Proposal for a
waste free Stage

24. Proposal for a recycled photo booth with the interactive glass bottle bench

25. Other initiatives: Recycling Points
different themed designs depending on the waste found