(RPG-002) “SUSTAINABLE WASTE SEGREGATION”
“RATED PG” Thursday, 18 September 2007
By Ike Señeres
(RPG-002) “SUSTAINABLE WASTE SEGREGATION”
How could a local government unit (LGU) implement and sustain a waste segregation program? The present method now is to segregate bio-degradable and non-degradable materials. While this method could still work, I suggest an alternative method, and that is to segregate those that are organic and non-organic. This has the advantage of creating awareness among the people of the advantages of adopting an organic lifestyle.
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On the practical side, it might still be difficult to expect people to segregate, not unless it would offer them a direct advantage. This could be in the form of earning directly from a livelihood project that would be easy to implement at the village level. Specifically, I am referring to the production of feed ingredients and fertilizer ingredients.
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Due to high market demand, it would be safe to assume that all feed ingredients and fertilizer ingredients produced locally could be easily sold to feed mills and fertilizer plants. These production projects are simply just cottage industries, and any local community could produce these easily.
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For example, local communities could produce corn, soybeans, fish meal, and meat and bone meal. They could also produce vermin cast, compost, manure and liquid fertilizer. The key to this strategy is vermin culture, or the growing of African night crawlers, an imported variety of earthworms.
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Instead of organic waste (including waste food from the kitchen), community members should feed these to the vermin, which eat practically anything. Assuming that they could also culture ordinary snails (kuhol), they could easily produce a local substitute for imported meat and bone meal.
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Using their own production of vermin cast, community members would have free fertilizers that they could use for growing corn and soybeans. Mixing with other ingredients, they could produce their own feeds for poultry that would also give them a supply of manure. The manure could be fed to fish, so that they could produce supplies of fish meal, another feed ingredient.
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For more information about public governance, email iseneres@yahoo.com
By Ike Señeres
(RPG-002) “SUSTAINABLE WASTE SEGREGATION”
How could a local government unit (LGU) implement and sustain a waste segregation program? The present method now is to segregate bio-degradable and non-degradable materials. While this method could still work, I suggest an alternative method, and that is to segregate those that are organic and non-organic. This has the advantage of creating awareness among the people of the advantages of adopting an organic lifestyle.
**
On the practical side, it might still be difficult to expect people to segregate, not unless it would offer them a direct advantage. This could be in the form of earning directly from a livelihood project that would be easy to implement at the village level. Specifically, I am referring to the production of feed ingredients and fertilizer ingredients.
**
Due to high market demand, it would be safe to assume that all feed ingredients and fertilizer ingredients produced locally could be easily sold to feed mills and fertilizer plants. These production projects are simply just cottage industries, and any local community could produce these easily.
**
For example, local communities could produce corn, soybeans, fish meal, and meat and bone meal. They could also produce vermin cast, compost, manure and liquid fertilizer. The key to this strategy is vermin culture, or the growing of African night crawlers, an imported variety of earthworms.
**
Instead of organic waste (including waste food from the kitchen), community members should feed these to the vermin, which eat practically anything. Assuming that they could also culture ordinary snails (kuhol), they could easily produce a local substitute for imported meat and bone meal.
**
Using their own production of vermin cast, community members would have free fertilizers that they could use for growing corn and soybeans. Mixing with other ingredients, they could produce their own feeds for poultry that would also give them a supply of manure. The manure could be fed to fish, so that they could produce supplies of fish meal, another feed ingredient.
**
For more information about public governance, email iseneres@yahoo.com
posted by Ike Señeres at 11:56 PM
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