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Updated: Wednesday 26 March 2008

Master Composter Programme in Sri Lanka

A.Scheinberg, I. Haenen, C. Jayaratne, V. Post (1970)

After the Tsunami struck Sri Lanka in December 2004, waste management systems virtually collapsed and waste was disposed of indiscriminately. The local authorities were faced with a post-tsunami situation which was beyond their resources. This lead to unplanned coastal zone dumping practices, poor urban environment planning, substandard water management and sanitation practices and a general waste of resources.

The project “Rapid implementation of community based short and middle term measures to improve the functioning of solid waste management in Tsunami affected areas of Ampara and Hambantota districts” was approved by CORDAID on March 1st 2006.
As of such, the project team arranged interventions in the following thematic areas:

  • Health care solid waste management (Report series 1);
  • Faecal sludge management (Report series 2);
  • Master Composting (Report series 3);
  • Solid waste management: Policy and Strategy (Report series 4);
  • Health care liquid waste management (Report series 5);
  • Plastic recycling (Report series 6), and
  • Debris management (Report series 7).

This document explains the process of the Master Composter Training, and will provide some questions that should be taken into consideration when one plans to implement a Master Composter Training. Chapter 3 describes the project as implemented in Sri Lanka, in the areas of Hambantota and Kalmunai, in the period of February 2007. It offers information on how municipality and community are dealing with the waste management situation, before and after the Tsunami struck in December 2004. Subsequently, this chapter will bring forward the sequence and contents of the Training session. Chapter 4 gives a set of conclusions drawn from the experiences from the trainers of the Master Composter (both from WASTE and from Energy Forum), and gives advice on how to proceed in each of the areas of the Master Composting Training.

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