environment theme park project

ongoing since 2008

introduction

Awareness building and education are the key issues in tackling the Bali environmental and specifically waste problems. The Waste Re-Cycling Project is visited frequently by schools, Government officials, NGOs and other interest groups.

Seeing solutions, combined with interactive and hands-on activities in an educational center have a much longer lasting impact, not only on school children, but also on adult visitors. Emphasis will be on interactive presentations, hands-on experiences and practical solutions for the general population.

A further important function of the Center will be encouraging and actively supporting the planning and implementation of material recovery facilities in other areas of Bali and Indonesia to replicate the Gianyar Material Recovery Facility, thus creating a synergy between the two projects.

planned themes for the center

• Reduce waste: reduce – reuse – recycle
• How the waste recycling facility in Temesi functions
• Wastewater garden (from the Biosphere project) for the bale toilet sewage that feeds a fish pond
• Lessons in various composting scales and techniques
• Health issues about waste and improper handling of hazardous materials
• SODIS process for easy, no-cost water sterilization to get potable water
• Binocular microscopes to demonstrate composing microbes and analyze water quality
• Self-made and Swisscontact posters on recycling and other environmental themes
• Bamboo as building material, properties, conservation and models
• Mud walls, properties and construction and models
• Energy reduction in Balinese households (e.g. energy saving versus normal lamps)
• Demonstration and assessment of alternative renewable energies (wind, photovoltaic, biomass)
• Samples of products created from waste and hands-on creation of new objects
• Production of recycled paper

status

After hearing of the United Nations Environmental Showcase Projects Award. for the Re-Cycling project (above), the Swiss Ambassador offered money to complete / improve the Environmental Theme Park!  There will be a big Opening at the end of October 2008, coordinated by Yaysan GUS.

funding

Funding from a variety of sources.