opportunities for sustainable municipal solid waste management services in batticaloa district
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Opportunities for Sustainable Municipal
Solid Waste Management Services in
Batticaloa District
Stakeholder Workshop, Batticaloa
23rd September, 2016
Sivakumaran Sithamparanathan, UNOPS
Miriam Otoo, IWMI
To present project results for feedback from relevant authorities and interested organizations;
• Share key learnings on ‘Resource Recovery and Reuse’ (RRR) to identify potential for value addition to on-going and future RRR initiatives in Batticaloa;
To gain input and feedback on project impact pathway and sustainability strategy for compost plants.
Objectives of Stakeholder Workshop
Waste Management: A Challenge for our Environment and Water Bodies
Solid waste
Liquid waste
Kinniya Hikkaduwa Eravur
Kinniya GampahaKalmunai
Batticaloa District
UNOPS’ Intervention in Batticaloa
• Provision of an integrated solid waste collection and processing system, disposal and regulatory set up and training for local authority staff;
• Implementation of community awareness to increase participation and ownership of public services in solid waste management and drainage;
UNOPS’ Intervention in Batticaloa
• Work with 8 local authorities to establish an efficient and cost effective collection, transportation and treatment system;
• Partnership with Mobitel Sri Lanka to monitor waste collection via 'M-track,' to allow more efficient staff operations and waste collection;
• Construction of infrastructure (cluster landfill, four compost facilities and associated structures);
• Local authority capacity building and operational support;
UNOPS’ Intervention in Batticaloa
• Work with Enforcement team including Police to reduce illegal littering;
• Capacitate community based organization and youth leaders to practices best waste management practices;
• Technical education in waste management to University students in Batticaloa.
Business Thinking to Ensure Sustainability
• Most donors and governments envision investment
plans which do not require their continuous support
for impact.
Donor Support
$Intervention
Sustainable impact
$ $ $
Donor Support
Market-driven
Mechanisms
$Intervention
$ $ $
• Learning from 100 compost plants in Sri Lanka;
• Cost recovery ranges: 3 to over 100%
• Similar cases from Africa and South Asia;
• Detailed analyses –development of successful model for
replication.
Subsidized composting at district level
• Project Goal: Support UNOPS to develop cost-effective and sustainable integrated MSW management services in Batticaloa district.
• Project objectives: Recommendations on –• Adapted sustainable business strategies and
technologies for productive reuse of MSW for compost plants;
• Adapted existing capacity building initiatives of local stakeholders involved or responsible for provision of waste management services.
IWMI – UNOPS Project Objectives
• 150+ business cases analyzed
• 60 cases have in-depth analysis
• 20 business models developed
• Testing models in 10 cities
• Identify the major organic waste sources within LAs, which produce high quality organic waste loads;
• Estimate the quantity of high quality, segregated waste generated in LAs;
• Identify the waste qualitative characteristics;
• Recommendations developed on best waste sources and technology adjustments (if needed).
• Cost-recovery potential of compost plants;
• Revenue generation streams;
• Assessment of compost product characteristics demanded by end-users;
• Estimation of potential compost market and influencing factors;
• Provide recommendations on existing business strategy in partnership with the LAs and UNOPS.
Alternative Business Models
1. Marketing strategies/ partnerships
2. Penetrative pricing strategy
3. Carbon credits via scale agglomeration
(Private) Waste collectors
Public sector composting plant
Key partners (MSW)
Carbon Emission Reduction market
(Annex 1 countries)
Carbon credit$
Fertilizer distributors
Farmers
Compost
$
Urban residents & institutions
Compost
$
$
$
Agrarian Service Departments
www.iwmi.org
A water-secure world
Faecal sludgeCo-composting
Safe organic fertilizer
MSW Compost
Alternative Compost Product – Fortifer
• Specialized simple technology, demand for organic produce, competitive on regional market (certification), non-subsidized fertilizer market;
• Address 2 waste streams (MSW & Faecal Sludge)
Increased market access & product
value
Branded &
certified
fertilizer
Reversed cash flow – Reduced waste management costs (income for waste), averted burning of agro-waste
Research
Blending and pelletizing know-how
Supply of waste
Public sector/
farmers
$
$
Urban, peri-urban, rural
farmers,estate,
plantations
Certification agency
Distribution & marketing
entityPublic entity
$
Regional
market
$
$
•Share international best practices on MSW management and associated business models;
•Recommendations on adaptations to existing training and capacity building initiatives (if needed).
Thank You.
This CGIAR sub-program on RRR works closely with the RUAF Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations University (UNU), and many national and international partners across the globe.