Community-based Mercury-contained Waste Investigation and Recycling
Main Problems:
Due to lacking of effective recycling and treatment of large quantity of domestic harmful waste such as waste energy-saving lamps, fluorescent lamps, many harmful waste has gone into domestic garbage, which severely pollute domestic garbage and brings serious negative impact to the environment.
The community hardware stores generate large quantity of harmful waste and also are facing the same problem. The local residents usually bring the used lamps to the hardware store when they buy the new one because they don't know the type of lamp. So that over 100 energy-saving lamps and fluorescent lamps per month are left at each the hardware store.
Solutions/activities:
1.mobilize volunteers to participate in community harmful waste recycling activities per month
2.mobilize volunteers to conduct 'investigation on flow direction and treatment of community harmful waste' and compose investigation results report.
Anticipated results/outcomes:
1. over 300 volunteers participated in project and trained with harmful waste knowledge?
2. increase 8 recycling stations of hardware stores within one year, it's expected that 10000 energy-saving lamps will be collected pr year, around 30000mg mercury to soil and water in Shanghai will be reduced.
Due to lacking of effective recycling and treatment of large quantity of domestic harmful waste such as waste energy-saving lamps, fluorescent lamps, many harmful waste has gone into domestic garbage, which severely pollute domestic garbage and brings serious negative impact to the environment.
The community hardware stores generate large quantity of harmful waste and also are facing the same problem. The local residents usually bring the used lamps to the hardware store when they buy the new one because they don't know the type of lamp. So that over 100 energy-saving lamps and fluorescent lamps per month are left at each the hardware store.
Solutions/activities:
1.mobilize volunteers to participate in community harmful waste recycling activities per month
2.mobilize volunteers to conduct 'investigation on flow direction and treatment of community harmful waste' and compose investigation results report.
Anticipated results/outcomes:
1. over 300 volunteers participated in project and trained with harmful waste knowledge?
2. increase 8 recycling stations of hardware stores within one year, it's expected that 10000 energy-saving lamps will be collected pr year, around 30000mg mercury to soil and water in Shanghai will be reduced.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Grassroots Community (Shanghai Zhabei District Re Ai Jia Yuan Youth Community Volunteers Association)
Country:
China
Area Of Work:
Chemicals
Grant Amount:
US$ 6,125.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 7,387.00
Project Number:
CPR/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/CH/12/02
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
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Project Characteristics and Results
Project sustainability
After one year's execution, our recycle project has been normalized. All those joined hardware shops were still willing to collect waste tubes. Number of volunteers at each activity were stable.
Policy Impact
An 'investigation report on flow direction and treatment of community harmful waste' will be completed and submitted to local government for policy recommendation on harmful waste control and treatment in Shanghai.
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SGP Country office contact
Ms. Meijia Lu
Phone:
+861085320743
Email:
Ms. Lixia Zheng
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Beijing, Chaoyang, 100600
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