reuse organic waste
The Problem
There is a poor management of municipal waste with the uncontrolled disposal of domestic waste by the population in much of the major cities in Cameroon. In fact, organic waste represents more than the half of the volume and weight of municipal waste and can be recycled in form of fire woods needed as cooking fuel for thousands households. In fact, the demand of this cooking fuel is increasing daily due to the rapid urbanization with much more poor population reaching cities to find jobs. This demand of cooking fuel increasing the deforestation of surrounding forests in search of wood in form of logs or branches from trees. Then, to reverse this rapid deforestation linked to the search of firewoods, this project aims to transforming organic waste into woody materials that can be used as cooking fuel affordable by the poor population. This transformation of organic waste into wood materials is going to decrease the demand of fire woods from trees then favoring the conservation of surrounding forests while creating new job opportunities for the population and reducing the volume and weight of the municipal waste. In fact, the large volume of waste generated by the population is a major factor that hampers the good management of municipal waste in Cameroon. Then, this transformation is going to significantly reduce the volume of waste and ease its management of municipal waste collection stream
Our Proposal
The proposed solution to the problem is the transformation of organic waste which made up more than the half of waste stream in Cameroon. This transformation can be made through the milling and drying processes. However, other transformation procedures may be found more applicable in this region.
We Assume that...
1. There is a good quantity of organic waste in the waste stream 2. The city council wants the reduction in the volume of waste to be collected 3. Organic waste may be transform into woody materials
My hypotheses are based on the fact that the city council is not able to cope with increasing volume of discharged household waste . Then, some solutions are needed to reduce this volume of waste.
Constraints to Overcome
The barrier to address this transformation of organic waste into wood materials reside on the technical knowledge. The question is to know the methodology which is more applicable for this transformation. I thought about milling these organic wastes. But other techniques may also be available and more applicable in this situation. And even though the technology is available, would it be affordable in the poor country like Cameroon?