ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Let's start with asking the question, "Why we need to protect the environment?" The answer is simple, it is because we need to protect ourselves. Our life depends on our environment. A healthy environment creates healthy ecosystems which clean our water, purify our air, maintain our soil, regulate the climate, recycle nutrients and provide us with food. They provide raw materials and resources for medicines and other purposes. They are at the foundation of all civilization and sustain our economies. So, yes! We indeed need to protect the environment.

SCOPE ASIA and its partners strongly believe that we need to "act" as soon as possible to protect our environment since it is in high danger. Currently, SCOPE ASIA is working with Udayana Community Development Program (UCDP) Universitas Udayana to create smart communities and develop Community-Based Waste Management System in Bali.

COMMUNITY-BASED WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

THE PROBLEMS

Urban household’ waste in centralized sites generates multiple problems.

• Traffic congestion.
• Scattering garbage on the collection sites.
• Centralized dump sites scatters blown create unpleasant smells, change biodiversity, create toxic liquid pollution and gasses.

High costs to manage centralised dump site is high.

• Costs for transportation vehicles.
• Costs of labor for waste collection and to manage the dump sites.

THE OBJECTIVES

To develop a new decentralized - community based waste management system which is more efficient than the centralized system that is currently managed by the local government.

To develop economic value to generate incomes for communities by selling products from the waste; Biogas, Bio-fertilizer,  Plastics Recycling,  and Developing Urban Organic Farming System leveraging the bio-fertilizer.

To use water purification machine to introducing water machine to produce high quality and healthy drinking water as additional economic value for the community; an integral part of the waste management system.

To replace the use of non bio-degradable plastic bags in collecting household waste with biodegradable plastic bags made from cassava starch to protect the environment; this is integrated in the waste management system.

THE COMMUNITY-BASED WASTE MANAGEMENT CONCEPT

The objective of the Community Based Waste Management System is to give the communities in Bali a real solution to managing their waste which can benefit their health and also the environment. These communities will be able to manage their household wastes, transform the waste into usable products and clean energy, which then can be used or sell the products to generate more income.
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​The smart communities will not only focused on household’s waste management, but also for the water and farmland treatment. By using SCOPE ASIA’s water purification system to treat the raw water becoming the high-quality drinking water, and using biobox to treat the household’ waste producing the biogas and bio-fertilizer. The bio-fertilizer produced by biobox will be used to treat the farmlands producing organic fruits, vegetables, flowers, ornamental plants, herbs, etc.

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REDUCING THE USE OF PLASTIC

"More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped in our oceans every year."

​SCOPE ASIA INTRODUCING THE ALTERNATIVE OF PLASTIC BOTTLES IN TIMOR LESTE

​Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with properties that make it ideal for many applications. However, these qualities have also resulted in it becoming an environmental issue. We have developed a “disposable” lifestyle and estimates are that around 50% of plastic is used just once and thrown away. It is clear that plastic can harm the environment. To handle this problem, SCOPE ASIA and its partner, introducing the alternative of plastic bottles starting from Timor Leste.

​"LESS PLASTIC, MORE QUALITY OF LIFE" SEMINAR IN TIMOR LESTE

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Demétrio de Amaral de Carvalho, on behalf of the Government, participated in an initiative to promote solutions to reduce the use of plastic in Timor-Leste. The seminar "Less Plastic, More Quality of Life" was held on September 19, 2018, in the Orchid Room at Timor-Plaza in Dili.

The seminar was organized by SCOPE ASIA Timor-Leste in partnership with the national companies Kmanek and Ce'mill and Avani, an Indonesian company that produces ecological and biodegradable alternatives to the use of plastic.

​The Secretary of State for the Environment at the opening of the seminar referred to the importance of this event for the reduction of the use of plastic in Timor-Leste, as "between 18 and 20 percent of the waste that goes to the tip at Tibar is plastic and if we reduce the plastic we will be able to minimize the amount of garbage that goes to the sea and to the streams".

Demétrio de Amaral de Carvalho congratulated and encouraged the national and international entities that organized the event and carried out several environmental protection initiatives and announced that the Government wants to implement a "Zero Plastic Policy" and that this "is a sustainable strategy for companies" who "spend about $ 200,000 a year in plastic bags" and "can save $ 1.5- $ 2 million from the implementation of this public policy”.

​In addition to the Secretary of State for the Environment, the seminar was attended by former President of the Republic, José Ramos-Horta, who spoke under the theme "The vision on the problem of plastic in the world", Kevin Kumala from AVANI and Clarence Lim from KMANEK , with the themes "New ideas to reduce the use of plastic, cassava as a winning ecological solution" and "Local market and the reduction of plastic consumption", Dahlia Bernardo of Scope Asia Timor, with the themes "solutions for consumption of water without using plastic bottles" and "EcoBox for organic waste, biogas and organic fertilizer". The event also had the projection of the video produced by USAID Timor-Leste "The sea that sustains us".

​The former President of the Republic expressed his satisfaction with "the Government's environmental policy and concrete measures to protect the environment and reduce the use of plastic". José Ramos-Horta added that "Timor as a state, as a nation and as a community, has to carry out its own initiatives to solve the problem of plastic, but also the problem of cutting trees, of garbage and of constructions along the streams".



Text from: Government of Timor Leste Website
Wed. 19th of September of 2018, 16:30h