Early Childhood Research Paper 2022

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD
EARLY CHILDHOOD
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
Sustainability mainly focusses in meeting the needs of the present without
compromising the needs of the existing time without compromising the ability of the future
generation to meet their needs (Ritchie 2013).
This paper will describe why sustainability is important in the concerned early child
care setting, especially focussing on some resources that are needed for the early childhood
setting and how they are sustainable for the setting, including the cost benefit analysis of the
resources used in the settings. While, there are resources that can be managed in an early
childhood settings, saving is of freshwater is an important part of sustainable living in an
early childhood setting. Hence, a whole plan of the setting for grey water treatment for using
them in toilet flushing has been used in this assignment.
Discussion
Sustainability is important for improving the quality of the environment, for clean air,
preservation of the natural resources. Practising sustainability empowers children for
constructing knowledge and explore the values and develop an appreciation of the
environment and its relationship with the world. It helps in the construction of an
environmentally responsible adulthood (Ritchie 2013). Furthermore, early childhood places
are settings are placed where sustainability are often not maintained in terms of energy, water
used in the toilets. Sometimes the equipment used in the rooms are not energy sustainable. In
such cases many changes can be made to make an energy sustainable environment.

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Business report
Project name: Grey water treatment for toilet flushing
Project sponsor: X early child hood setting
Date of project approval:
Last Revision date:
Contribution to the business strategy:
There are several ways by which the educator of the early childhood setting can actually
facilitate the conservation of the natural resources, like saving energy by turning of the lights
or use of the energy saving light bulbs, recycle the plastic bottles, caps and the tyres to make
innovative substances or using them in play based activities (Davis and Elliott 2014). It is
necessary to develop a structured and managed approach to the resource efficiency that will
identify the opportunities to save money, improve the profile of the issue in the organisation
and set the schedules for the change of the continual improvement (Davis and Elliott 2014).
While there are various resources, one of the natural resources that are often exploited in an
early childhood setting is “water”. Children often do not have awareness about the use of
water and keep the taps on. Children might keep the water running while washing the paint
brushes.
Benefits:
 To save energy
 To conserve water
 To reduce the overall public demand of freshwater
 To reduce the amount of waste water entering the sewers or on-site treatment systems.
Time scales:
Analysis says that it can be done approximately 2-3 weeks to implement.

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Cost:
Material cost Material costs
ABS pipes, fittings, valves, bathroom 5000AED
Labour cost Plumber +site worker
Daily rate 37 AED/day
Cost Component Cost
Initial Cost 7300 AED
Allied Construction Costs 1964 AED
aid 1216 AED / year
Operation Cost 1200AED / year
Replacement Cost 500 AED/ 20 Years
Cost analysis:
The cost of the grey- water reuse includes both the internal costs of production and
distribution of the treated grey water as well as the external cost of the environmental and the
social factors. The internal cost would normally include the investment costs, the civil works,
the equipment and the machinery and the piping works, the financial costs due to the
financial investments, the operation and the cost of maintenance. The operation and the
maintenance of the grey water reuse system will largely been done by the care workers taking
care of the children. The only energy consumption for this system is 0.25HP electric motor to
lift the treated grey water to the overhead tank for using them in toilets. The amount of
flushing water in this childhood setting is about 1000litres. .5% of the investment done