Presenter: Lios McGilchrist Co-authors: David Lerpiniere, Costas Velis and David Wilson
Waste to Wealth: Can improving solid waste management in emerging countries reduce poverty,
create employment opportunities and address development goals?
Overview
• The effects of poor Solid Waste Management
• The Waste to Wealth Programme • Aims • Approach • Examples of activities • Outcomes and impacts
• Conclusions
The wide ranging effects of uncontrolled Solid Waste Management (SWM)
Flooding - Property
damage - Injury - Loss of life
Ground contamination
- Clean-up costs
- Loss of land value
Air pollution from open burning
- Acute and chronic health impacts causing direct healthcare costs and loss of economic productivity
- Rejection of waste sites by the public
Surface and groundwater quality impacts
- Health impacts (direct healthcare costs and loss of economic productivity)
- Water treatment costs or cost of loss of water resources
Pressure on land
- Increased land costs
Greenhouse gas emissions
- Costs borne by the global community
Lost resources
- Opportunity cost of recycled materials
Increased incidence of disease associated with open
dumping of waste - Morbidity and mortality - Increased healthcare
costs from disease - Loss of economic
productivity
The Waste to Wealth programme
• Aim: To improve the living conditions of urban slum dwellers through two interrelated objectives: • Improving sanitation conditions by enhancing waste collection and
disposal in urban slum areas • Creating income generating opportunities for micro and small
enterprises (MSE) and social enterprises in the waste and recycling sector.
• Programme location: • Kampala, Uganda • Port Harcourt, Nigeria • Douala, Cameroon • Makeni, Sierra Leone
Approach Supporting the improvement of waste management services in slum areas
• Enterprise development: Building the capacity of poor entrepreneurs and
social enterprises in the waste management and recycling sector.
• Awareness raising: on the importance of waste management services and the right of slum dwellers to a clean environment.
• Local government training: on their roles, responsibilities and partnering with the formal and informal sector.
• Public private partnerships: promoting partnerships between local authorities and micro enterprises.
• South-South exchange: on technologies and approaches.
Enterprise development
“The OCN training has been really useful in helping me to plan my business in such a way that I can help it grow with the resources that I have, and it has helped me to link up with other people working in the plastic sector, which has helped me grow both the amount of raw materials I receive, and the market for my finished products.” Mr Jean Kenmoe, Manager of Pla-Cam
Innovation through exchange
Public private partnerships
Wisdom and Insight Investment in Kampala signed a contract with Nansana District Council in 2013. This has enabled them to increase their turnover by 300%.
Public private partnerships "We hope that by the end of 2015, it's all briquettes. There is no longer charcoal, people will go out to get briquettes." The Briquette-Making Enterprise of Makeni City, Sierra Leone, has recently secured its first large-scale order for 30 tons of briquettes.
Public private partnerships
In December 2014, FJDD, a youth-based organisation, launched a partnership with Douala 2 council to collect plastic waste in the district.
FJDD employs 50 youths through this partnership.
Outcomes and Impacts
• 840 new jobs created in the waste recycling sector • 60,000 slum dwellers with improved waste collection services • Economic growth in the recycling sector, with average 15-30% profit
increases per enterprise • 7000 people making an income from waste recycling streams
• 19 public private partnerships signed with local government
Conclusions • The Waste to Wealth programme has generated positive outcomes, helping to address
poor waste management conditions and provide economic opportunities for sum dwellers.
• Initiatives focused on improving solid waste management have real potential to address development challenges by: • Generating enterprise, employment and income generation • Improving sanitation conditions • Acting as a proxy for good governance
• A multi-faceted approach is needed to maximize impact. It is important to address both
the demand and supply side of SWM and to engage with all stakeholders: local government, entrepreneurs/small business, major contractors and the public.
• Activities focused on SWM will have a key role to play in helping to meet Sustainable Development Goals.
Contact Lios McGilchrist Living Earth Foundation E: [email protected] T: +44 207 440 9750 Or David Lerpiniere University of Leeds E: [email protected] T: +44 07759 676480 Weblinks: Twitter: @W2WAfrica www.youtube.com/livingearthuk http://wastetowealth.livingearth.org.uk
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