Earthwise Projects

Overview

Our projects are designed to create self-sustaining cycles that engage residents, governments, and businesses to be active in waste management by combining environmental education with processes (such as waste-to-fuel technology) that generate revenue and other benefits for the community.

Providing a revenue source for the community ensures long-term sustainability of waste management activities, without dependency on donations.

Project Activities and Outcomes

Activity: Environmental Education

Provide after-school "eco-education" activities for school children,
hold environmental awareness workshops for residents and businesses, and
promote plastic waste reduction and the circular economy.

Outcomes: Awareness and activism of residents is increased

Residents are aware of dangers of plastic pollution,
empowered to protect their families and communities,
can rely on city to collect their waste at scheduled times, and
have methods and incentives to properly manage and process waste.

Activity: Capacity development of city waste collection:

Develop effective waste management guidelines with the city,
improve waste collection and processing abilities, and
train waste management workers.

Outcomes: Waste management in the city is improved:

City collects more waste with fewer resources,
becomes a trusted and reliable service provider, and
reduces costs by sending less waste to landfill.

Activity: Establish local economic incentives:

Pyrolysis is a technology that converts plastic into energy (such as diesel).
Train and hire workers to operate and maintain the system, and
use revenues from the fuel to fund social and environmental programs.

Outcomes: Waste-to-fuel (pyrolysis) system is installed:

Waste becomes a valuable resource, not a cost,
city becomes self-sufficient in waste management, and
revenues fund other community programs:
- Supports even more environmental awareness and social empowerment, and
- becomes an incentive for long-term waste management.

What is Pyrolysis?

Pyrolysis is a process that safely turns plastic waste into fuel.

It not only eliminates plastic from the environment, it also provides energy, jobs, and funds to support other environmental programs.

We work with communities to install small-scale pyrolysis systems that they can use to eliminate plastic waste while providing benefits that they need.

Project Goals

At the end of each project, the community will:

have the knowledge to be active protectors of their communities and environments,
be self-sufficient in waste management and processing,
have source of revenue to maintain waste management operations in the long-run,
have source of revenue to fund other social and environmental programs,
be role-models for change and inspire other communities to take charge of their waste and community