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Sustainability program.

      Aabroo Board of Governors and Aabroo Executive Committee decided as a policy matter that the dependence of Aabroo’s educational, vocational training and allied undertakings shall have a minimum dependence on the donations from the benefactors and shall have an income generating not for profit venture to support all the present and future endeavours of Aabroo Educational Welfare Organization. Out of all experiments and failures one of our Solid Waste Management Initiative was success story in the second quarter of year 2007.

 Aabroo  Solid Waste Management initiative was launched on February 01, 2007 with a dual mission,

• To raise funds for educational schools that run under the

Aabroo welfare organisation, providing free education to the homeless and destitute children.

• To educate people towards working for a common cause; Our Environment.

Current Project Details:

1.Door to door collection

Aabroo has introduced the concept of door to door collection of garbage household for the first time in Pakistan. Our smart workers would come to your house on a fixed schedule and collect the garbage bag filled with your daily waste, while providing fresh clean empty garbage bags free of cost. This dry waste collected daily from the community is taken to our waste recycling facility where the garbage is sorted by our well trained staff before being sold to the garbage dealers.

Waste Types:
Organic Waste:
The organic waste comprises mostly of  kitchen waste, garden clippings, animal dung and other such garden clippings, animal dung and other such biodegradables.
This waste is processed into organic fertilizer through bio-composting. This fertilizer is used for soil enrichment and enhancing the yields of crops through
better utilization of the nutrients in the soil.
Dry/Inorganic Waste:

Aabroo provides poly propylene bags to the donor that he/ she keeps in the house and replaces it normally in three months. The donor collects used PET bottles, old newspapers old books, used notebooks, cartons, various packaging, used clothes, uniforms, shoes and school shoes ,school bags etc. This bag when becomes full, it is collected by the Aabroo solid waste collection staff (weekly or fortnightly). This waste is transported to a warehouse to be manually segregated into separate items for selling to recyclers. 

      Presently Aabroo collects solid waste from nearly 6000 houses and institutions on weekly basis and approximately 24000 donors per month. This activity generates funds to support one third of the present monthly expenditure of Aabroo. We hope the in a few years this initiative is going to fully support Aabroo’s funding requirements

OUR SITE (Health, Safety & Environment):

We strongly focus on the health and safety of our workers both on site and the collection teams

• Industrial Waste Collection:

Currently our main industrial waste collection comprises of:

• Solid waste like Tetrapak and other packaging materials wasted during processing and packing which usually ended up in huge waste piles in dumping areas or waste water drains. The waste collected is sorted at our site the same way as residential waste and then sold to the respective industries for recycling or reuse purposes.

• Liquid wastes like waste milk, yogurt, juices and fruit pulp. The waste collected is processed into fertilizer through bio composting at our composting site or it is incinerated at site while strictly adhering to environmental protection laws.

To promote public awareness of the "3 R's" (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle) that has developed into a well-established and popular feature of the local community in most developed nations, promoting awareness of the need for waste minimisation through a range of activities including an environmental education programme for schools (and other interested groups), and a reuse/reclaim facility. This concept is as important as we continue to search for ways to reduce the amount of waste which ends up in landfill.

INFORMATION ABOUT SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT:
Solid waste management is a polite term for garbage management.  As long as humans have been living in settled communities, solid waste, or garbage, has been an issue, and modern societies generate far more solid waste than early humans ever did. Daily life in industrialized nations can generate several pounds of solid waste per consumer, not only directly in the home, but indirectly in factories that manufacture goods purchased by consumers. Solid waste management is a system for handling all of this garbage; municipal waste collection is solid waste management, as are recycling programs, dumps, and incinerators.

There are a number of types of solid waste which need to be dealt with. The first is recyclable waste, objects which are useful, but no longer wanted. Solid waste management includes the construction of facilities to recycle these goods, which include scrap metal, glass cans, paper, plastics, wood, and similar materials. Another category is toxic waste; waste which could potentially contaminate the environment, meaning that it needs to be handled with care. This category includes electronic waste, a growing problem in many industrialized nations. Next is green waste such as compost and yard clippings. People with land can compost their own green waste, and many cities collect it separately from true garbage, the final category, so that the green waste can be composted and returned to the earth.
The majority of solid waste is collected in bins ranging in size from household trash cans to industrial dumpsters which are filled by individuals or companies. Solid waste collection trucks roam the streets on regular schedules to collect these bins. Garbage is also collected by street sweeping agencies, volunteer cleanup organizations, and through consumers who bring their waste directly to the solid waste management company. Once solid waste is collected, it is routed to a recycling facility, garbage facility that can handle toxic waste, composting centre, or disposed of. Many solid waste management companies maintain large dumps for this purpose, while others incinerate their garbage, using the energy generated by the incinerator to run a recycling plant or feed power back into the electrical grid.
Integrated Waste Management

Waste managers need to create sustainable systems that are economically affordable, socially acceptable and environmentally effective.

• Economic affordability requires that the costs of waste management systems are acceptable to all sectors of the community served, including householders, commerce, industry, institutions, and government.
• Social acceptability requires that the waste management system meets the needs of the local community, and reflects the values and priorities of that society.
• Environmental effectiveness requires that the overall environmental burdens of managing waste are reduced, both in terms of consumption of resources (including energy) and the production of emissions to air, water and land.

Integrated Waste Management (IWM) takes an overall approach to this, involves the use of a range of different treatment options, and deals with the entire solid waste stream.

The following figure represents the concept of Integrated Waste Management (IWM). The IWM “doughnut” demonstrates that collection and sorting are at the centre of any successful waste management system.

Along with the overall need for sustainable waste management, it is clear that no one single treatment method can manage all materials in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in an environmentally effective way. Following a suitable collection system, a range of treatment options will be required.  These include materials recovery, biological treatment (composting/bio gasification), thermal treatment (mass-burn incineration with energy recovery and/or burning of Refuse Derived Fuel - RDF) and land filling.  Together these form an Integrated Waste Management (IWM) system.

Effective management schemes need the flexibilityto design, adapt, and operate systems in ways which best meet current social, economic, and environmental conditions. These are likely to change over time and vary by location. The need for consistency in quality and quantity of recycled materials, compost or energy, the need to support a range of disposal options, and the benefit of economies of scale, all suggest that IWM systems should be organized on a large-scale, regional basis. Any scheme incorporating recycling, composting or energy from waste technologies must be market-orientated.

Whilst it uses a combination of options, the defining feature of an IWM system is that it takes an overall approach to manage all materials in the waste stream in an environmentally effective, economically affordable, and socially acceptable way.  IWM systems can be optimized using the tool of Life Cycle Assessment.