1. General objective
Encourage municipalities and neighborhoods in general to organize and participate actively in order to significantly improve the management, transportation and collection of solid waste, knowing the basic procedures for home management, transportation schedules and their route.
2. Management areas
- Solid waste; Pedagogical strategy; Minimization of solid and liquid discharges; Home and commercial recycling.
3. Means of communication to use
- Radio media: Television media: Print media:
- Listin Diario; Free Journal; Today; Caribbean; National; New dairy; Local magazines; Print advertising; Ruffles and / or lampoons.
- Social media:
- Community and neighborhood workshops; Talks in schools and colleges; Informative and work meetings with neighborhood councils; Awareness and cleaning sessions with neighborhood associations.
4. Thematic Areas
1. Implementation of an Environmental Plan for solid waste management.
- Rationale and justification
The current management system for municipal solid waste (non-industrial), ordinary and special, of the municipality of Santo Domingo Norte (district 1 and 2), basically consists of the collection of household, commercial and service waste and others, municipal transport and disposal. end of waste in the Duchess landfill. Although there are organized civil groups that collect waste or recycled waste such as glass and paper at the doors of houses and shops, this practice is not systematic.
On the other hand, the work of the «divers» in the selection and recovery of the waste at the final disposal site (sanitary landfills) is warm and justifiable under the current management system, however, from the point of view of the health of the divers the work is questionable. Although the current system solves the immediate problem of "disappearing" the city's garbage, it does not promote the principles of pollution prevention, as it does not have a strategy to minimize waste or residues, nor does it promote the principles of shared responsibility of waste producers in the management process of these.
In addition, the waste recovery processes (reuse, recycling, among others) occur in isolation. And while the problem of waste management is currently manageable, future management difficulties will increase as a result of population growth and current consumption habits, thus generating an environmentally unsustainable system, more and more garbage and more landfills. The problem of the location of the sanitary landfills and the unsustainable, more and more garbage and more landfills is still not solved. What is the most appropriate from the environmental and territorial point of view, a sanitary landfill for each municipality, or a landfill for many municipalities, as is currently the case?
- Description of the problem
Starting from the premise that the previous model of waste management is an environmentally sustainable system, it is worth asking: is it feasible and feasible to carry out a program for the management of ordinary, bulky and special waste from shops, offices and services (commercial waste) and household waste (household waste) for the Santo Domingo Norte city council? A program of three whose axes of action will be the formulation of guidelines for the management of ordinary waste, prevention, selection and collection of waste, recovery, disposal of rejection in controlled deposits, disclosure and communication? A program that incorporates citizen awareness in the waste minimization process, as well as the operationalization of the selection, collection, transport,deposition and recovery of waste? A program in which the executing agency is the municipality, technically and normatively directed by a "waste board" in which representatives of the civil community, commerce, primary and secondary education centers, the one, the mine, participate?, the mag, among others?
- Target group and impact zone
- The management of a sustainable solid waste management system by the municipality with the support of the community The target population is the municipality of Santo Domingo Norte.
- Summary
The present extension project has the general objective of inducing the creation of a sustainable management program for ordinary and special solid waste from home and commercial sources in the first district of circumscription 1 and 2 of Santo Domingo Norte. The lines of action of the program will be prevention, selection, collection, commercial recovery of waste, final disposal of waste, and dissemination and communication. The guidelines and organizational bases of the program should emerge from participatory workshops with the different actors involved in the waste product-manager process.The role of the national university would be to conduct the process and technical advisor and that of the municipality would be that of the executing agency of the program supported by a waste management board made up of the different social actors.
- Results
- Training for about 200 members of the civil community: school teachers, members of the chambers of commerce, parents and members of the municipality, on topics related to the environmental and cultural problems of ordinary solid waste and the alternatives of management of these Internal report containing the feasibility and feasibility study of the project Article for the geography magazine of Central America referring to the methodological systematization of the participatory experience of the process of formulation and management of the ordinary solid waste program Creation of dissemination material and a website that allows the program to be disseminated Document containing the guidelines of the waste management system designed by the different actors
- Projection of Progress
- The diagnosis on solid waste management was prepared. Data on the production and management of solid waste by sector of activity was collected. Progress was made on a management proposal for solid waste management, developing:
- The criteria to consider in the management proposal The management proposal according to land use.
- Summary 2007 (Partial Report)
The project started as an initiative of the school of geographic sciences, involving other academic units of the university, however, the solid waste management management system requires the expanded participation of other sectors and spaces for participation at the level of the community and public and private institutions of the municipality first.
In this way, one of the most relevant results of the project has been the active incorporation into the ecological social awareness program. This committee became in 2005, a significant space for the meeting of various institutions that have been working generally and specifically, establishing actions and policies that allow environmental protection and therefore increase the quality of life of the inhabitants., merchants and visitors. Participated in cleaning campaigns organized by the pbae; with the donation of the municipality of materials for the cleaning campaigns, and to combat the hatcheries against dengue; among them are cited, plastic bags and gloves for the collection and final disposal of waste,As well as part of the strategy, the collection of non-traditional waste in the canton was promoted.
Two bulletins have been prepared: one to support the campaign against dengue and the other requesting the neighbors to collaborate with the cleaning and decoration of the community of the municipality first. As a result of the management efforts, the participation in dissemination and communication activities promoted by the chamber of industry, commerce and tourism has been obtained, and has requested its members to support the initiative of the pbae and has been publishing the activities in its newsletters. to be done by the pbae.
- 2008 projection
Various requests were made for messages to churches for the promotion and support of pbae activities. More than 30,000 flyers have been distributed promoting the cleanliness of the community, rivers, streams, parks and green areas, arrangement of sidewalks, canoes, downspouts, and the incorporation of businesses into the pbae program has been encouraged.
Through the public services company of the city council, the incorporation of educational centers into the school ecological social awareness program for the year 2007 and support for 2010 efforts has been promoted. Participation in the pronouncement before the municipality in the case of handling solid waste, cleaning, grooming and decoration, participation in national radio programs on the cleaning campaign, collaboration in the development of solid waste management regulations.
Other activities promoted through the project have been the incorporation of students from the academic unit in works and research proposals, supervised professional practice and the elaboration of maps and diagnoses that have constituted inputs for discussion of the subject matter in question.
- 2009 projection
1. Participation in the pbae committee of the first municipality is made up of representatives of different institutions. As a result of this effort, a document of all the activities carried out by the committee was presented before the national commission of the ecological social awareness program (bae), to evaluate the actions of the different living forces of the municipality, be they public sector organizations or private, governmental and NGO-type institutions (non-governmental organizations), to qualify for the award called "ecological blue flag". Annex: report on the execution of the work plan of the community's ecological blue flag committee, presented on November 15, 2005. Annex: Ecological social awareness program committee of the participating institutions and individuals.
2. Participation in the cleaning campaigns organized by the pbae. A cleaning campaign was carried out throughout the territory, on October 20 of the current year in which 400 students from the high school and 1600 students from the national university participated, both from the general studies center, the school of geography, from environmental and wildlife sciences. In addition, prominent academics from the national university participated. For an approximate of around 250 people who collaborated in the environmental awareness campaign, including the organizers.
- 2010 projection
The action of the committee will be developed in the sector throughout the annexed municipality: ecological social awareness program bulletin, aimed at municipalities and business owners. Annex: cleaning campaign area map: ecological blue flag. Annex: students and teachers from the school of geographic sciences participating in the cleaning campaign held on October 20.
3. Participation in dissemination and communication activities. Various requests were made for messages to churches for the promotion and support of pbae activities. More than 30,000 flyers have been produced and distributed promoting the cleanliness of the community, rivers, streams, parks and green areas, fixing sidewalks, canoes, downspouts, and the incorporation of businesses into the pbae program has been encouraged. Through the public services company of Santo Domingo Norte, the incorporation of educational centers into the school ecological social awareness program for 2007 and support for 2010 efforts has been promoted.
In this sense, during the cleaning campaign carried out on February 27, 3000 flyers were delivered to the shops and houses of the neighbors, where a call for attention is made to collaborate in the environmental improvements of the community and its properties or businesses. that may be contributing to negatively impact the environmental urban landscape of the municipal council of Santo Domingo Norte.
