The Joint Council for Solid Waste Management in Bethlehem organizes an awareness visit to Marda Farm

The Joint Services Council for Solid Waste Management in Bethlehem Governorate and the Palestinian Society of Sanitary Engineers organized on Thursday, 10 October 2013, in cooperation with the Directorate of Education in the Governorate, an environmental awareness visit to a farm for perennial agriculture in the village of Marda, Salfit district. In this visit about forty-five teachers from the schools of the province and a crew of the Council and the Society of Sanitation Engineers This visit comes within the activities of environmental awareness campaigns on recycling organic solid waste by converting it into organic fertilizer through the use of compost method (natural dopal), which Since July, the project has been implemented by targeting all segments of the community with a focus on both school students and housewives through the project “Raising the Capacity of Joint Solid Waste Management Councils in Hebron and Bethlehem” funded by the Italian Consulate General in Jerusalem. The Palestinian Municipalities Support Program (PMSP) through the Ministry of Local Government – General Administration of Joint Councils.
During the visit, we learned about the types of composts that are carried out on the farm, how they are produced, the quality of the compost that is produced and how we can control the factors that affect the compost process. The quality of the compostable waste has also been identified, as well as its benefits in reducing the volume of organic waste disposed in containers and then to landfills, which strains its ability to bear the huge amounts of waste it receives daily in addition to the role of the compost process in benefiting From organic waste by converting it into a useful fertilizer for plants and trees, as well as reducing the amounts spent by farmers in obtaining chemical fertilizers.
In the end, Engineer Yusriya Ramadan from the Association of Sewerage Engineers stressed the need to separate the waste and follow it by recycling the organic part of it with natural manure

Whether in schools or at home, as well as the need to transfer teachers to this culture to their students and help them and encourage them to practice in schools and in their homes as well