Kotte Solid Waste Management Strategy

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ForewordCommissioned by UN-Habitat through the International Research Centre of the Netherlands at the invitationof the Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte Municipal Council, MaRGG prepared this important strategy document within threemonths. MaRGG was greatly assisted in the task by the technical assessments and reports prepared for the purposeby ITDG – Sri Lanka. A brief note prepared by National Environment Research & Development Agency (NERD) wasalso helpful.To assess the impact of the environment improvement activities carried out by the Municipal Council,MaRGG conducted an impact survey assessing the results of the innovative distribution of compost bins to over 2000household during 2001 -1004 and also held a series of mini consultations with a large number of stakeholdersincluding community groups, NGOs, CBOS and the private sector ascertaining their views, perceptions and visionabout urban environment in general and the city’s solid waste management in particular.ITDG Sri Lanka conducted a series of technical assessments of the Bio-gas project and Waste Recyclingproject that the Municipal Council was experimenting with for some time. NERD too provided a technical paperassessing the economic feasibility of Bio-gas ion an urban environment.The Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte Municipal Council and the Ministry of Environment coordinated the exercisethrough periodic progress review.What follows is the synergistic outcome of this multi-agency effort. As a result, the Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte Municipal Council has become the first and only local government authority in Sri Lanka to have acomprehensive city-wide strategy for solid waste managementThere were many dedicated partners in this task. Apart form the ones mentioned above, we are grateful toMr. Sarath Fernando, the Municipal Commissioner, Kotte, Ms. Padmini Batuwitage, Mr. Ranga Pallawela of ITDG SriLanka and Mr. U. G. Ekanayake, the Development Assistant of Kotte Municipal Council for their guidance andasssiotanceLeo FonsekaPresidentMaRGG (Managmeent Resources for Good Governance)
Executive SummarySince the Nineteen Eighties the Sri Lankan urban society, in general, was taken unawares by therapidity of economic liberalization and globalization. The society was not ready with adequate mechanismsto cope with the resultant glut of a market with a large variety of disposables. The conventional solid wastemanagement systems are being taxed to the maximum and are being challenged as land fill sites are hard tocome by. There is a need to look at the problem in its totality from a new perspective.The proposed SWM strategy, developed under the auspices of the Basic Urban Service initiativeof UN-Habitat and International Resource Centre in the Netherlands, aims at providing the SriJayawardenapura Kotte Municipal Council with a vision and methodology to address the problem of solidwaste management in the city. While a good part of the daily volume of garbage generated in the city iswell managed currently, it is the unmanaged part that is nagging and irritable. The strategy looks at theproblem as part of the total environment planning issue. It is based on the following guiding principles.Guiding PrinciplesThe SJKMC Strategy is based on a series of broadly accepted guiding principles. They are:• The solid waste issue is much wider than SWM• Don’t waste Waste.• Lack of financial resources is not the main issue.• Landfill is only the last resort.• Recognize the Informal sector as a vital partner.• People need affordable solutions.• Promote and facilitate peoples’ participation.• Develop stakeholder partnerships.• Administrative and institutional changes are vital for an effective EPM.• Free services are less sustainable.• Documentation is extremely important for continued planning.
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