‘Create a waste management strategy’

‘Implement recycling management systems’

‘Sensitization and education’

‘Promote creative innovations to manage waste’

‘Removal of millions of tons of waste’

‘Improve the environment ’

Educational site surveys • Questionnaires • On site - statistics • Graphs • Environmental Debates

ICC Malawi

Competitions • Biggest plastic football • Plastic bag bottle

competition • Cleanliness award at schools • Upcycling competition

We will construct using recycling materials

Recycling points constructed in strategic places

EDUCATION / RESEARCH CLEAN UP / RECYCLING

International research about waste

‘If you throw away your aluminum cans, they can stay in that can form for up to 500 years or more- so recycling is the way to go’

‘Around 1000 children die in India every year due to diseases caused from the polluted water’

‘Fresh water in the world is only 2.5% of the total water available on this planet’

‘80% of the water pollution is caused due to domestic sewage like throwing garbage on open ground and water bodies’

‘Different kinds of plastic can degrade at different times, but the average time for a plastic bottle to

completely degrade is at least 450 years. It can even take some bottles 1000 years to biodegrade!’

Dominican Republic 2012

Ghana

Waste implications in Malawi

‘There were no plastics 45 years ago. More costs go into cleaning the water now than ever before’. Chief of Area 3: worked at Waterboard from 1965 to 2010

Lilongwe 670,000 people 2010. 1,098,200 people 2016. Lilongwe is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. With growth comes major challenges dealing with waste management. ICC Malawi, Lilongwe 2016

‘Unused tobacco stems and the tobacco manufacturing process produces liquid, solid and airborne wastes, some of which are potential environmental hazards and may even pollute surface and ground waters’ Gunatilaka, 2006; 226 Mumba, P. P. and Phiri, R. Novonty and Zhao, 1999; USGS, 2005

Monitoring and evaluation office of community servings investment promotion statics show that in 2010 the city generated 109 tonnes of solid waste per day; of the total, 15% derives from industries, 25% from commercial areas, 20% from hospitals and 40% from residential areas.

‘Waste bins are not located at strategic points within the city’

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295224 Chancy Namadzunda. Lilongwe, Malawi. 2010

City Centre

The history of waste in Lilongwe

Photo of Lilongwe River 2014

Photo of Lilongwe River January 2016

City Centre site survey

This is a graph to show the facilities used for people to manage waste in the city centre

This is a graph to show the quantities of waste found in people’s homes in the city centre

City area 1

Road traffic ½ paper 0.2 Plastics Metal FDH Bank 0.25 paper FMB bank 0.25 paper 0.1 plastics NBS 0.5 paper 0.25 plastics CITY assembly 0.25 paper 0.1 plastics Restaurants 0.5 paper 0.5 plastic

City area 2 Department of Information 0.25 paper 0.2 plastics 0.1 metal and glass Spar 1 paper 1.5 plastics 0.3 metal 0.25 glass Tyre fitters 0.25 paper 0.25 plastics National library 0.5 paper 0.25 plastics 0.1 metal bottle tops

Bunda turnoff

City area 3

Water board tests prove water is heavily polluted New financial bank 0.5 paper 0.25 plastic

This graph shows the 3 most problem wastes from questionnaires in the City Centre and how we can use this waste

Bottles used for beds and irrigation

Bottle built compost toilet

Plastic weaved items

Making recycled paper

Cape Maclear site survey

Key Homes

Lodges

Waste quantities found in Cape Maclear

This graph shows the quantities of waste from people’s homes

This graph shows the facilities used to manage the waste

Msonga Village

Plastics and paper

Glass and metal

Preferences for Cape Maclear recycling

This graph shows the types and quantities of waste that came out of the lodges

This graph shows the types and quantities of waste from peoples homes

Tin bats Flower tins

Briquette paper making and bottle building at Heed Centre

A resident weaving plastics Food waste is good for compost

Uses for tins

Never Underestimate the Power of Waste

Environmental Video

7 out of 8 Millennium Development Goals

Bringing skills and employment gives an income

Environmental sensitization and education

Developing women’s groups with ideas to reuse and recycle

Cleaning the waters and therefore reducing chance of disease

Environmental sensitization and education

Linking everyone and implementing a holistic approach

Solutions Educate, Clean up & Recycle

‘If you throw away your aluminium cans, they can stay in that can form for up to 500 years or more- so recycling is the way to go’

‘Recycling is nothing but process of using old or waste products into new products’

‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’

‘Composting and recycling alone have prevented 85 million tons of waste to be dumped in 2010’

When working with nature things should move in a circle

These will be the descriptions on each bin as to what happens with the waste, giving details of all community initiatives it supports. It will be important to state the community groups, doing what activity, so people can understand it will be beneficial to use the recycling bins.

Solutions for Cape Maclear

• Involve all chiefs to adhere to using one waste collection system altogether

• Use all community groups and schools to educate them in environmental matters and how waste is valuable

• Have an environmental animation video in all video shops

• Build a recycling point

• Place 20 recycle bins on the front side of Cape Maclear. These will be collected and managed by 2 people.

• Support existing recycling initiatives and

implement new ones to use waste materials

• Promote and sell recycled objects in all lodges

• Organise workshops to design and build devices useful for the villages with all community groups

Recycle bins locations

Briquette makers from Chembe village

How to make compost step by step guides and laminated sheets around the village. Write the benefits of compost and give examples to grow food so people can see it works How to make briquettes step by step guides and laminated sheets around the village

Workshops with materials to design and build useful efficient devices Using waste that will compliment and ease people’s lives in the village This will give people good incentives to collect and recycle more waste

Cape Maclear can be our model village which we intend to advertise and use

as an example

We will then start new site surveys and research in different locations

There may be different waste and other needs that can be developed

with the communities

Other initiatives: Lake Of Stars in Chintheche, Nkhata Bay Proposal for a waste free Stage

Proposal for a recycled photo booth with the interactive glass bottle bench

Other initiatives: Recycling Points different themed designs depending on the waste found