Facilitators-Handbook-For-Permaculture

110 Facilitator’s Handbook for Permaculture Workshops

Creative thinking : Household waste disposal methods

Method : Participatory work group brainstorm

Tools : IDEP waste management fact sheets as handouts for participants

Large paper, or white / black board, markers

References : PC Book MOD 3 – Houses, Water, and Waste Management;

IDEP waste management fact sheets

Objective : Participants learn about solutions for household waste management

Step 1

Distribute the IDEP waste management fact sheets and have everyone read them.

Step 2

Using something like the table below, the facilitator can ask the participants to identify

local household wastes and how they are usually disposed of. Then ask them to talk

about whether these disposal methods are safe or not (table 1). The facilitator can help

to fill out these answers if necessary. The answers listed below are only supplied

as guidelines for the facilitator if the participants need help or prompting for

ideas and discussions.

Household

wastes

Disposal

methods

used

Is it safe or not?

Why?

How could it be reduced,

reused, or recycled

Kitchen wastes Fed to pigs, dumped

If dumped, will

produce liquid and bad

odors

Fed to pig, compost

Newspaper,

magazine,

paper

Dumped Reduces forest trees Make recycled paper, sell it to waste collectors

Plastics,

bottles, cans,

iron

Dumped,

burned

Needs at least 100

years to decompose Recycled, reused

Batteries, toxic

chemicals (oil,

paint, etc)

Dumped,

burned Poisonous

Special areas for paints, used oil, etc, if

possible send to waste treatment center

Table 1. Household wastes Table 2. Solutions

Step 3

Ask the participants to split up into smaller work groups (see the appendix) and have

each workgroup come up with creative solutions for reducing, reusing, or recycling the

various types of household wastes that are listed on the table.

Step 4

After each workgroup has created their lists, ask them to write them on the board (table

2) while presenting the results to the entire group for feedback and other suggestions.

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