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Solid Waste Management Prog
- 1. 3R Good Practicesin Sri Lanka 3R GOOD PRACTICES IMPLEMENTED BY NGOS/ NGO /CBO Lanka Jathika Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya Activity Solid waste management programme implemented through 25 schools and 5 communities OUTLINE OF 3R GOOD PRACTICES Keywords Municipal Solid waste management, schools, SriLanka Country Sri Lanka Area Implemented Panadura, Moratuwa, Piliyandala , Gampaha & Kotikawatte / Mulleriyawa in the Western Province SriLanka Address 98, Sarvodaya HQ, Rawathawatte Road Moratuwa Sri Lanka. Phone 00940115524752 (Direct), 0094 0112647159 (general) Fax 00940112656512 E-mail dedtp@sarvodaya.org uaadissanayake@gmail.com Contact Person Mrs. Udani Mendis (Phone: 0094773867054 ) Deputy Executive Director, Sarvodaya Waste Sector Municipal Solid Waste 3R Practice Solid waste managemen, education on SW management and recycling Website / Data Source www.sarvodaya.org
- 2. OVERVIEW OF PRACTICES Introduction Sarvodaya is an organization a broadly embedded peopleʹs organization, with a network covering 15,000 villages, 345 divisional units, 34 district offices, 10 specialist Development Education Institutes; over 100,000 youth. Lanka Jathika Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya is an organization founded in 1958 as a national NGO. One of the main aims of Sarvodaya is creating an eco‐friendly society and protecting environment by minimizing damages to global environment and humanity from solid waste disposal problems and burning of other waste in selected 25 schools and 5 communities. 3R Good Practice This organization helped in identifying issues related to solid waste management system in various places of Sri Lanka. Six towns in western province was identified to have facing the major problem of solid waste disposal due to urbanization and due to lack of proper solid waste management system functioning those areas. Awareness programmes on solid waste management was conducted to educate schoolchildren in 25 schools and for 5 communities in Colombo suburbs. School Children were educated on separation of solid waste and efforts were taken to make them understand the problem associated to unmanaged solid waste and through them to motivate their elders to follow proper solid waste disposal methods. Community programmes were conducted for Elders and the Women in villages, in five communities, and arrange them to practice solid waste management by introducing composting, recycling and reusing. The activities involve, conducting meetings with local government authorities in 5 towns and schools administrations, implementing school awareness program, supplying of garbage bins for collection of waste, educating communities and school children on separation and storing of organic waste to make compost and to prepare fertilizer and encourage bio‐home gardening. In addition, it conducts Art Competitions and Dramas for children to present their ideas on available practices of environment and solid waste disposal and indirectly creating awareness among the elders through the children. Outcome of the activity • The five communities in five towns implementing these activities become the representative model for other villages in their towns, to follow and is expected to expand this programme throughout the country. • Increasing support from the town and village administration and from the educational sectors in five towns including school principals and teachers in creating awareness on the solid waste issues in the area. These activities have largely reduced the burden of local authority burden on disposal of solid waste in these areas.
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