Solid Waste Management Master Class- Learning Notes - MILE

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4 Education, <strong>Waste</strong> MinimisationAnd RecyclingOutcome:Theme 4 focused on the role education can play in wastemanagement; how eThekwini Municipality has rolled out itseducational programmes; and the extent to which this approachcan be applied to other municipalities.Challenges:• Lack of sense of ownership of the environment.• Attitudes towards the areas we occupy at any given time.• Operational efficiency is often problematic for municipalities(e.g. is it more efficient to use bins as opposed to plastic bagswhen collecting waste?). The task system has “failed” in manymunicipalities due to the fact that labour demands overtime formore work if the task has been completed regardless of the factthat the workers are employed on an eight hour shift.Lessons Learned:• Municipalities need to create awareness through educationprogrammes (i.e. reducing, reusing and recycling) focusing onminimising incidences of littering, illegal dumping practicesand waste going to landfill.• Municipalities must empower and enable all sectors to takeresponsibility of their waste management practices.• There are four essential components of a clean communitysystem, namely, standards, facilities, education, andenforcement.
• A process of project management needs to be adopted indealing with waste management issues – promotion, customerbuy in, process, implementation, monitoring and reinforcement.• <strong>Waste</strong> management education programmes should beincremental in targeted areas (i.e. hot spots). Target a fewhouseholds initially before you expand to the rest of thecommunity.
Page 2 and 3: Table of ContentsAbbreviationsAbout
Page 4 and 5: About MILE and the Master ClassProg
Page 6 and 7: About Learning NotesThe Learning No
Page 8 and 9: General OverviewOutcomes:The genera
Page 10 and 11: • To address solid waste manageme
Page 12 and 13: 3New Area ManagementOutcome:Theme 3
Page 16 and 17: 5Waste Minimisation AndRecyclingOut
Page 18 and 19: These facilities should, preferably
Page 21 and 22: Great minds think alike!!...a summa
Page 23 and 24: • Approach, good reasons for regu

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