Social Venture: My Garbage and My Responsibility

My Garbage My Responsibility

Social Venture

What will be our reaction by seeing tons of garbage located in the street? A corrupt government, a lazy municipality and a kam chor labor force! Did we ever think where it comes from, who is responsible for this? Yes, we are. The garbage that comes from our home, our office, restaurant, colleges is ultimately dumped into the street and remained uncollected for several weeks, sometimes for the month. The garbage scattered in the city gives a stinky smell affecting our health and daily activities.

The developing country like Nepal is facing a waste management problem. Due to the lack of planning, long term vision and lack of awareness everyday waste is increasingly dumped in the street.

My Garbage My Responsibility is social enterprise established in 2018 with an objective to manage garbage that comes from private offices, restaurant, schools, households etc. There are tons of garbage coming from the offices and household reaches at city with a hope Municipality will collect and dump in the dumping site, 24 km away from the city. Due to the poor management system of government, it cannot be collected for a week. Sometimes due to the strike of labor force, sometimes due to the unavailability of dumping site. Ultimately who are suffering, people who is producing wastage, people who is paying tax. Thus we are here to manage garbage of your office and home.

Vision

 To create, to maintain clean, healthy and garbage free environment nearby you.

Mission

To utilize the organic solid wastes to prepare compost and to distribute to the local farmer.

To collaborate with different enterprises to manages non-disposable wastes.

To improve the waste management practice at the private institute and households.

To create awareness about 3 R’s through different campaigns and field experimentations.

Values:

Eco-friendly: we are thriving to maintain nature friendly environment around us. The product and service we provide are ecofriendly.

Self-responsibility: We are responsible for what we do. We are accountable and responsible for our act. By sensing it, we are thriving to manage garbage for us.

Collaboration: we collaborate to improve our system. Government, private sector, NGO, and other partner should work together to improve environment of the surrounding.

Caring: we care our environment and our health.

Statement of problem

A piled string garbage around a major city of Kathmandu valley poses a serious health risk for pedestrians, affects surrounding environment, causing difficulties in traffic management and communicating negative message among the tourists about this heritage city. According to the government record 80 % wastage are solid organic wastes that comes from the restaurant, households which is dumped in to the side of the street. Government is more focusing on temporary solution rather than minimizing and recycling that garbage for better. They are busy on searching dumping site to dump around 70 metric tons daily. Sisdole, Syuchatar, Gokarna, Bagmati river side are some dumping site currently government is using and trying to explore more. What happening to the local people, surrounding natural environments? They are being polluted due to the mismanagement of the site. The scenario is worst during the monsoon where garbage is not taken care up by government for weeks, sometimes for month. The problem is government see garbage as a politics and due to the negligence of governing body our health is in risk.

Pain point: it poses serious health risk like respiration problems, diarrhea, dysentery …. of the people and destroying natural environment impacting image of the city.

Relevance: My garbage my responsibility collected garbage from the source. Before thrown into the street, garbage will be collected and managed to produce compost.  A training about 3 R’s will help to minimize the garbage, help client to know about recycle opportunity which reduce garbage and save their expenses.

Propose solution:

In order to train about 3 R’s, a trainer will provide workshop for the community.  In this training, trainer will discuss about disadvantage and health hazard via garbage around the city and they will discuss about recycling. A process to prepare compost at a home/office will be shown which can be used in garden and in the flower. We provide onsite waste management services to hotel, hospital, colleges. Trainer will show demo to reuse plastic bottles at home. Trainer will perform various experimentation to the client. The community people will be trained and encouraged to produce different creative products by using non-degradable garbage like bottle, plastics and other electronic garbage. To promote plastic free community, enterprises collaborate with Bhaini and we will distribute and encourage them to use plastic free bags for shopping. Made from other material not from the plastic and encourage them to use while going from shopping.

All the community people will be trained to handle the garbage properly and requested to store in the right container. They will be informed to store decomposable garbage and non-decomposable garbage in different container.

To improve the waste management practice at the private institute and households we provide training and infrastructure to improve garbage management at the source level.

My Garbage My Responsibility works with colleges, corporate houses, restaurants, hotels and banquets, vegetables markets like Balkhu and Kalimati Markets, community. We use membership card for them. We do initial observation to identify garbage produced by the clients and based on that we provide them big or small two containers. One container with green color to decomposition organic garbage and other red color container for plastic bottle and other non-degradable garbage. Our staff will collect those container as per pre-schedule and get them to the factory. All the organic garbage will be monitored closely to remove any non-decomposable material and process to make compost. Other non-decomposable material will be segregated as per their type. We make plan about what we do for each materials.

For plastic bottles: collected bottles can be used as a decorating material, as a pot to grow flowers.  A trained employee will make plastic flowers, doll, as a decorative box to store. In order to recycle excessive bottles, we collaborate with plastic recycler vendor.

 For plastic bag: The collected plastic bags will be used to produce different placemats, artificial flowers, bowls, coasters and different creative things. All the collected plastic will be washed by the machine in warm water for decontamination. Then a trained employee will cut down into the strip of plastic and uses to make different material. It can be sold to the market at the good price.

E- waste: For all the e-waste management we collaborate with recycler vendor

To improve the collection of wastage in the regular basis a schedule like below with be formulated and informed to all the stakeholder:

Company Name	Place	Average Ton garbage	Schedule date and time
Company A	Baneshwor	1 ton	Every day , 4:00 AM
Company B	Babarmahal	20 KG	Sunday- Tuesday-Thursday- Saturday, 4:00 AM
Company C	Babarmahal	1 ton	Everyday 4:10 AM
Company D	Koteshwor	2 ton	Every day, 4:20 AM

To collect the garbage, a truck will be used. A truck storage area will be divided into two partition: one for non-decomposable and one for decomposable garbage. Different colors of truck will be used as per area they should covered. For the area like supermarket, big restaurant, banquet hall and vegetables market daily pickup facility will be provided and for the small colleges, hotel and restaurant every alternative day. Based on how much garbage they produce; schedule is prepared for collection.

To make further smooth timely collection of garbage, website of companies will be created and each member will have one credentials. Through login in the system, they can inform us to collect garbage from their place. A simple sms alert message from member will be send to pick up employees. Garbage will be collected within 2 hours. In the website all the members can see all the record sheet like number of garbage collected, approximately ton collected, approximately non-decomposable garage collected, ton of compost produced by the companies etc.

The decomposable site will be located around 5 km far from the city.

Collaboration

Create Awareness

Program

College, Restaurant, Hospital, Vegetable Market and other social enterprises

Community

Municipality

Manufacture

Training

Video

Experimentation

Segregation of waste

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Collect and transport Segregated Waste

Organic Waste: Compost Plastic Bottle, Bag: Decoration things Paper: Recycle it E-waste, any excessive waste: send to respective recycler.

Value to the society:

It helps to reduce garbage from the source itself. This enterprise will create awareness about garbage management thus proper utilization / reutilizations takes place to reduce the garbage. It will improve health of the people and maintain clean environment. It helps to create employment among the groups of the people.

Revenue stream.

·         Sale of recycle products: Compost, Bottle and plastic decoration artifacts.

·         Sale of non-decomposable item to respective recycler.

·         Infrastructure supports from the municipality/government and other environment protection agency.

Cost structure:

Plant setup for compost mall production: one-time investment.

Infrastructure: leasing truck, purchasing Container.

Training cost: Huge amount to create awareness about 3 R’s, experimentation for reused and training to segregate composts in the sources.

Salary: to the worker

Scalability: The nature of garbage is same overall in all the geographical region. This model can be easily transformed from one area to another area. A number of customer served, ton of wastage collected, ton of non-disposable garbage sold to third party, number of employment generated and number of collaboration indicates growth of the organization.

In future a stationary and decorating product, board, pencil can be created from recycling garbage there is ample opportunity to create new product by utilizing non-decomposable wastage.

Outcomes:

Reduce the number of wastage generate from the source.

Helps to reuse non-decomposable and decomposable wastage in the source at for some level.

Helps to solve problem of landfills and prevent greenhouse gases i.e. methane.

Helps to generate employment in the community and helps to preserve environment.

Goals	To create awareness about 3 R’s among stakeholder i.e. Community, hotel, hospital, vegetable market within 3 months.	To provide training about garbage segregation at the source.	To collect 10 ton of the garbage from the source daily.	To prepare compost from the organic garbage.	To manage all non-decomposable garbage collected from the source.
Activities	Program in their premises, Experimentation about reuse, video displaying	Live demo in their premises, distribution of the garbage collection container.	Collect garbage from the source using truck.	Checking and doing segregation of decomposable and non-decomposable in the site, set up container, area, water to start composition process.	Separate type of non-decomposabe garbage, placed at different container and collaborate with recycler vendor
Outputs	5 communities, 2 hospitals, 2 vegetables market, 10 colleges, 10 restaurant participate in the program.	5 communities, 2 hospitals, 2 vegetables market, 10 colleges, 10 restaurant participate in the program, 54 containers were distributed.	Garbage is collected from 5 communities, 2 hospitals, 2 vegetables market, 10 colleges, 10 restaurants. It’s around 10 tons	Ton of compost produced in the month.	Ton of garbage collected, ton of garbage sold, number of recycle item produced and sold
Outcomes	Improve garbage dumping behavior, increase in non-decomposable garbage reuse and clean surrounding environment	Proper segregation of decomposable and non-decomposable ghttps://www.academia.edu/38155705/My_Garbage_My_Responsibility_Social_Venturearbage at the source.	Timely collection of the garbage from the source reducing environment pollution, generating employment,  and improving health of the people	Organic garbage is well managed to produce compost which can be used in the garden. Improving environment and generating “black gold “ for the soil	Proper management of non-decomposable garbage and restrict to reach in the street, preserving environment from being polluted.
Indicator	Proper dumping of the garbage and ton of garbage produced, number of way garbage reuse.	Clients using separate container for dumping different level of garbage.	Number of truck, ton of garbage, number of client served daily	Timely generating compost and serving number of customer.	Item sold to the third party, recycle product volume and type, ton of non- decomposable sent to recycler.
Means of Verification	Visit a site and ask them about their behavior before and after program about garbage management	Inspecting the container.	Review daily report in the website, visit dumping site and visit client area.	Visit site and check quality, process of the compost.	Check transaction, number of collaboration, revenue generated by selling those produce
Risks/Assumptions	Awareness lead to activity and motivate them to perform in improved way	Clients know which are decomposable and non-decomposable garbage and responsible to place garbage in the respective container.	No barrier for transportation, client dump garbage in the scheduled time.	Adequate amount of organic garbage collected from the source in timely	Third party purchase in any volume at any time. Availability of third party for all type of non-decomposable garbage.