Waste Management Project

See pictures from the project

Bricks making and farming in the westlands
Paper waste management:
After the paper waste is collected by the students,
The workers transport it to the rubbish pit for burning
Managing vegetative waste:
A School worker moves the grass that is later collected
by the students for mulching puporses
Students collabrating on research in the Silent Graden
behind the library of Mt. St. Mary's Namgunga school.

Is waste management a problem in your school or neighborhood? Have you ever been disturbed with the abundance of paper, plastic waste or water waste in and around your locality? This has raised concern among Ugandans after a recent outbreak of cholera in our country mainly due to poor waste management problems.
Thus, there is need for an interpersonal exchange via a collaborative project on waste management in schools and the vicinity.

Objectives

To create a global awareness to the problem of waste management.
To collaborate with students, teachers and environmentalists world wide and find out how waste is collected in schools and surroundings,
To suggest the most efficient methods for managing wastes and to implement them.

Audience
Secondary school students, teachers, and environmentalists from all disciplines and extra-curricular activities.

Schedule
The project will begin in November with an exchange on informal discussions to develop on line community of inquiry. Participants will exchange email reports of 200 words per category as follows:

November 10 - November 25............. Informal Discussions
November 31....................................... Paper Waste Management
December 10 ...................................... Plastic Waste Management
December 20....................................... Water Waste management
January 10........................................... Vegetative Waste management
March 20.............................................. Air pollution and management

Category reports

The reports should be no more than 200 words and be titled:

'country'/'group'

Groups

Paper Products Group

This group of students will gather data on paper collection and its disposal.
The paper problem could be from within their own institutions or the immediate
neighborhood.

Plastic Products Group

The students in this group will be responsible for the reports on plastic waste
collection and its disposal or recycling.

Safe Water Group

As for this group, reports on the safe handling of water and reduction and
elimination of water pollution is their prime duty.

Vegetative Products Groups

This group will collect information management of vegetative wastes and how to
recycle the wastes.

Air Pollution Group

Their task will be to collect information on the pollution of the atmosphere and
possible remedies to these problems.

Coordinators
The coordinators of this project are Ugandan teachers from Mt. St. Mary's College Namagunga:

Sr. Cephas Commack (Headmistress),
Mr. Labongo Badru (Physics, Mathematics Teacher),
Mr. Mutiibwa Francis (Head of Physics Department),
Mr. Opaman Amos (Head of Mathematics Department),
Mrs. Byaruhanga Stella (Head of Chemistry department)

Contacts:

For Project, send replies to:

msmn@swiftuganda.com

OR

Mt. St. Mary's College Namagunga
P.O. Box 18,
Lugazi, Uganda

Tel: 256-044-48280

For the Coordinators:

Sr. Cephas Commack srcephas@swiftuganda.com
Mr.Labongo Badru labongo@msmn.ac.ug
Mr.Mutiibwa Francis mutiibwa@msmn.ac.ug
Mr.Opaman Amos opaman@msmn.ac.ug
Mrs.Byaruhanga Stella stella@msmn.ac.ug

Word from the Coordinator:

Hello there! I am a Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science instructor at Mt. St. Mary's College Namagunga.
I strongly believe that the improvement of Waste Management is the basis for the development of both the human mind and the immediate environment. From the theory of existentialism of man, "Man is just a speck of dust. What s/he does defines what s/he will become and where s/he resides defines the locus of her/his existence", clearly demonstrates the aforementioned fact.

Labongo Badru