Port Mutis: the value of the Self-management |
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 The community of Port Mutis has been organized to reach the environmental self-management, by means of the execution of a Project of Integral Management of Solid Waste, begun in November of 2000. The project is financed by the Program Araucaria–Panama, of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECI). The technical attendance is provided by the Association for the Promotion of New Alternatives of Development (APRONAD), an organization non government Panamanian specialized in projects of sustainable local development. |
APRONAD carried out initial studies dedicated to know the generation for
inhabitant of the solid waste and the physical composition. The data allowed to estimate
the team requirements and gathering frequency. Additionally, he/she was carried out an
opinion poll to the inhabitants, being verified the disposition of the community of
collaborating to solve a high-priority considered environmental problem. Since Port Mutis
is the road of marine access to the National Park Coiba, and a tourist destination in
growth, the community has granted a great importance to the environmental reparation for
its environmental and economic implications. Residents of Port Mutis in the process of transforming the organic
waste into " compost " . |
The Environmental Committee
of Puerto Mutis formalized a contract of gathering services with a micro entrepreneur,
which offers the service twice per week and he/she receives the payment in order to month,
on the part of the Environmental Committee, the one which in turn carries out the
collection directly to each family. |
| For further information: Francisco Rivas, e-mail apronad@yahoo.com . Tel. (507) 264-2940. URL: www.apronad.org | Crafts taken place with paper waste
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After
having carried out the studies that accompanied of an informative work and of
sensitization, the community organized an Environmental Committee in charge of to
coordinate and to mobilize the residents in support to the project. To the date, the
Environmental Committee of Port Mutis has achieved important advances: The assembly of residents of Port Mutis, established a rate of toilet of $USA.2 for housing a month. For the first time in their history the community paid for this service, in voluntary form. Previously the local authorities had failed in establishing a contribution of 25 cents of dollar to each family to finance the service of gathering of the waste. |
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