Recycling and Waste Management Strategies for Rural Cambodia

This report discusses opportunities for improving waste recycling in rural Cambodia, focusing on the challenges presented by the EWB Challenge and the Cambodian Rural Development Team. It highlights the current limitations of recycling efforts, which primarily focus on aluminum cans and bottles, and proposes a comprehensive system for managing both biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes. The proposed system includes educating residents about separating waste, using compressor trucks to reduce the volume of biodegradable waste, and employing methods such as air incineration for energy generation and composting for soil fertilization. The report emphasizes the importance of community involvement and tailored approaches to different types of waste to achieve sustainable waste management practices.

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RECYCLING OF THE WASTES
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Opportunities for recycling
Recycling is a process that helps to regenerate the products from the already used
products. The recycle of the products helps to achieve the sustainability in the production by
saving the use of resources. However, it is needed to be concerned that the recycle is done in an
scientific way (Crowe, Meyer and Clapham 2017) . People and the environment are not getting
harmed by the process of the recycling and the recycled products. One of the challenges in 2018
EWB along with the Cambodian Rural Development team is to development t of the resources
throughout northeast of the Cambodia. One of the major challenge is the management of the
waste management.
One of the major part of waste management is the recycling. The recycling is currently
limited to the aluminum bottles and cans. These are collected in a bag sent outside the villages
for the recycling. The other wastes which are bio degradable are not recycled in this process.
A system can be proposed which will able to recycle most of the wastes in the villages.
In order to do this, the first step is to make the residents concerned about putting the
biodegradable and non bio degradable wastes in a separate baskets (Sevigné-Itoiz et al. 2015). In
order to compress the biodegradable wastes one of the easiest and the cost effective way is to
indulge the use of compressor type trucks. The compressor type trucks will press down the
garbage on the floor with the use of a pressing plate. This technique will reduce the volume of
the garbage.
The solid and non bio degradable wastes can be collected by using the mechanical trucks.

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After collecting the garbage from the localities, those garbage are needed to be process
separately (Xue et al. 2015). The non-bio degradable wastes such as aluminum cans and bottles
can be processed in a such a way that other things can be made from those materials.
In case, of bio degradable wastes such as leftover and rotten vegetables and foods, the
air incineration technique can be obtained. The combusting of the garbage can also be helpful in
this case. The energy emitted from the air incineration can be used in high efficiency power
generation.
Another way of waste management for the bio degradable wastes is the proper disposal
and composting into the ground. Certain types of bio degradable wastes are compost in to the
ground. In this method, the ground is digged up to a certain depth (Babaei et al. 2015) . The
wastes are put in to the ground and then covered by the specific amount of soil. The wastes
inside will be compost naturally with the time and will be mixed up with the soil. This process
acts as a fertilizer for the ground which is a sustainable result of the recycling. However, not all
the bio degradable waste can be recycled in this way. The different actions taken for the different
wastes are needed to be done by the waste management authority. The primary concern in order
to initiate the process is to make aware the residents of the locality so that they can put bio
degradable and non bio degradable wastes separately.

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