Last week saw the gathering of Local Authority and agencies officers from all over Malaysia in Holiday Inn, Glemmarie to share and exchange lessons learnt on 3R good practices. Pilot waste management community initiatives funded by SWMC-DANIDA and supported by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government were on displayed and dessiminated to the participants. MBPJ together with our partners, namely Beautiful Gates Disabled Foundation, Justlife, Section 19 Residents Association, Global Environmental Centre (GEC), Centre for Environment, Technology and Development Malaysia (CETDEM) and Ecoknights showcased the outcomes and lessons learnt on our community projects. These include Household Waste Composting, Eco-Enzyme Making, Smart Rangers and Green Award. The projects are participatory in nature and finding waste minimisation solution at source or at the neighbourhood level through capacity building, training and awareness raising. The changing of attitude rather than application of technology is emphasized. We received overwhelming enquiries from other local authorities and community groups for initiating the same programmes.
The Seminar is an end to the pilot experience, but a start for replication process. The trained participants for Household Waste Composting, for instance have tentatively agreed to become mentor to coach others on doing the same. The impact is great with participation from other residents of PJ considering that every participant of the pilot project has reduced an average of 47% of their household waste. The challenge, is however to sustain their momentum and interest, and of course commitment.
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