City of Port Moresby - (Google Earth map)

This is a view of Port Moresby - covering only Paga Hill/Ela Beach, Downtown, Konedobu across Touaguba Hill and Ela Makana down to Koki and Badili (Matirogo) suburbs.



Other suburbs are not shown.

My Project Proposal - finally!

Project Title:

• Garbage/Waste Recycling within the Suburban Communities: Port Moresby City

Project Focus:

• Household garbage and proper garbage disposal options

Project Aim:

• This project aims to address the current waste management situation in Port Moresby, by concentrating on reducing household garbage disposal through recyclable options which provides an alternate monetary avenue for the communities within each suburb, and also proposing alternate means of garbage disposals.
  

Project Rationale:

• The National Capital District (NCDC) who is responsible for the operations and management of the City of Port Moresby has been throughout the years struggling to reduce the amount of household garbage being disposed at Rubbish Disposal Dumps allowing an increase in scavenging for recyclable, and compost materials. Similarly it does not have a clear demarcation on the types of waste materials, which could have been separated earlier for recycling, composting or disposed through incineration or land-fills. Nor it has clear policies on waste recycling or whether recycling can be done at a large scale.

Project Action:

• To achieve the project's aim, the strategy is two-fold.

1. To work with the NCDC (and its waste disposal contractors) to focus on a waste collection program with the communities, and
2. To work with and engage the communities to establish garbage collection units (depots) through the NCDC in their own suburbs, where all garbage/waste/rubbish is sorted out prior to final disposal in Rubbish Disposal Dumps and/or through incineration, land-fills, burning etc..
   

• To start off the project, I need to gather information on communities in suburbs that may have some interest for cleaning up their area and the NCDC and other relevant authorities and individuals mainly through available internet communication - website surfing and email technology. Since the project would be a long-term initiative, there would need to be a lot of data and information collection first from my place of study (in Australia) before I can embark on the project physically in Port Moresby. It needs more than just a plan and commitment to work on this.

• My appeal to like-minded people to contribute, comments or provide alternate measures that I can look into to make the project viable.

Risk Identification:

• In undertaking this work I will need to:

1. be mindful not to interfere on the community obligations and responsibilities of the NCDC, and 
2. be mindful of the disposal habits of people and their stubbornness to cooperate in proper disposal manners.

• The project would create financial implications and the cost factor would increase in the long run as a continuous project year-in year out. It may cause the project to fail should the NCDC declines to address it nor fund it. Some communities may be reluctant to join the waste management program.

My immediate problem is whether I will be able to gather sufficient ground information, and establishing networks including liaising, communicating, and working with permanent contacts to address this issue both in Port Moresby and Abroad since I am currently based in Australia, and the project would be assessed in June 2010. That is a big risk I am taking to chose this issue, especially when I am not located at that venue for easy accessibility.

My inexperience in blogging may also be a factor.

• Interested people can comment on this Blog directly.

THX!